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Grace Horsley Darling
Portrait.
Grace Darling was born in 1815 and achieved great fame for the rescue she made with her father, keeper of the Longstone lighthouse, when the 'Forfarshire', a paddle-steamer bound from Hull to Dundee, was wrecked on the Farne Islands on 7 September 1838. Grace became the archetypal Victorian heroine in the aftermath of her daring rescue. Technique includes etching.
Grace Darling was born in 1815 and achieved great fame for the rescue she made with her father, keeper of the Longstone lighthouse, when the 'Forfarshire', a paddle-steamer bound from Hull to Dundee, was wrecked on the Farne Islands on 7 September 1838. Grace became the archetypal Victorian heroine in the aftermath of her daring rescue. Technique includes etching.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAD3521 |
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| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Rogerson & Tuxford |
| Events: | Wreck of the Forfarshire, 1838 |
| Date made: | 1852 |
| People: | Darling, Grace Horsley |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 243 mm x 155 mm |