Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": The Wrecked Longboat by John Singleton Copley

Pen and ink study of sailors struggling beside a wrecked longboat in rough sea, with faint sketched figures above.

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Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": The Wrecked Longboat, John Singleton Copley (1785), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A pen and ink study shows sailors struggling in choppy water beside a capsized longboat, with one man raising a plank or oar overhead. Faint pencil sketches of additional figures and billowing forms appear in the sky above. The work is catalogued as a study for The Siege of Gibraltar by John Singleton Copley, dated 1785.

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1785

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Wikimedia Commons

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Public domain

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