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LIEUTENANT FREDERICK RICE STACK
View of James Town and the harbour, Saint Helena. Taken from the Harbour Masters Office, during the Rollers of the 17th February 1846.
hand-coloured lithograph by T.Picken after Stack, printed by Day & Son. London: Day & Son, [c.1846]. (Small marginal tears, some browning). Framed and glazed.
image: 36 x 59cm.
A dramatic pictorial record of a natural disaster. The legend beneath the image goes on to explain that the giant waves wrecked 13 vessels "(mostly captured slavers)... and Public as well as Private Property to the amount of ¨10,000, destroyed -- It was remarkable that the agitation of the Water was confined to about 500 yards from the shore, beyond which distance the Sea was perfectly calm, there being at the time scarcely any wind." Unexamined out of the frame.
View of James Town and the harbour, Saint Helena. Taken from the Harbour Masters Office, during the Rollers of the 17th February 1846.
hand-coloured lithograph by T.Picken after Stack, printed by Day & Son. London: Day & Son, [c.1846]. (Small marginal tears, some browning). Framed and glazed.
image: 36 x 59cm.
A dramatic pictorial record of a natural disaster. The legend beneath the image goes on to explain that the giant waves wrecked 13 vessels "(mostly captured slavers)... and Public as well as Private Property to the amount of ¨10,000, destroyed -- It was remarkable that the agitation of the Water was confined to about 500 yards from the shore, beyond which distance the Sea was perfectly calm, there being at the time scarcely any wind." Unexamined out of the frame.