Title

'Burning of the Kent', c1893, (1911). Artist: Thomas M M Hemy.

Caption

'Burning of the Kent', c1893, (1911). The Kent, an East Indiaman, owned by the British East India Company, launched in 1820. The Kent left the Downs on 19th February 1825 with 641 people on board. The Kent caught fire and sank in The Bay of Biscay between the French and Spanish boarder. From Bibby's Annual 1911, [J. Bibby & Sons, Liverpool, 1911]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1893

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19D10_411

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

58,9Mb (3,7Mb) / 18,5in x 12,4in / 5549 x 3712 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation outdoors sea boat boats arts day trade book smoke ship ships geography rough annual accident century rowing boat shipwreck Kent literature concept incident B&W MONOCHROME survivor 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W 1910s 20th century nineteenth century shipwrecked The Print Collector East India Company East Indiaman geographical feature Bay of Biscay landscape oil Joseph Bibby Joseph Bibby Bibby's Annual J Bibby & Sons Thomas M M Hemy Hemy Thomas M M Thomas Marie Madawaska Hemy Joseph Bibby oil landscape