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The Shipwreck
Details
Thomas William Bowler (1812-1869)
The Shipwreck
signed and inscribed 'T.W. Bowler/The Ship Wreck' (lower right)
watercolour
10 x 19in. (25.5 x 48cm.)
The Shipwreck
signed and inscribed 'T.W. Bowler/The Ship Wreck' (lower right)
watercolour
10 x 19in. (25.5 x 48cm.)
Provenance
Given by Bowler to Abraham de Smidt (according to an inscription on the reverse).
Friedlands Art Gallery.
Private Collection.
Friedlands Art Gallery.
Private Collection.
Literature
F.R. Bradlow, Thomas Bowler, His Life and Work, Cape Town, 1967, p. 125, no. 134 ('The picture depicts Danger Point with a horse cart apparently drawing a boat. Bowler's son, William Alexander Bowler, was a passenger on the schooner Eveline when it went down off Danger Point in 1863 and he died from exhaustion after having been taken off the wreck.')