The Wreck of the Minotaur (after Joseph Mallord William Turner)
Thomas Oldham Barlow (Oldham 1824 - London 1889)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1837 - 1901
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Measurements
590 x 820 mm
Order this imageCollection
Hill Top, Cumbria
NT 641590
Summary
Print, mezzotint, The Wreck of the Minotaur (after Joseph Mallord William Turner) by Thomas Oldham Barlow (Oldham 1824 - London 1889). Signed Thomas Oldham Barlow, shipwreck in a violent storm. HMS Minotaur was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 November 1793 at Woolwich. She was named after the mythological bull-headed monster of Crete. She fought in three major battles - Nile, Trafalgar, and Copenhagen (1807) - before she was wrecked, with heavy loss of life, in December 1810.
Marks and inscriptions
Thomas Oldham Barlow
Makers and roles
Thomas Oldham Barlow (Oldham 1824 - London 1889), engraver (printmaker) after Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (London 1775 - Chelsea 1851), artist