Ship Janson Cut through by Texel River Ice, (painting).

Ship Janson Cut through by Texel River Ice, (painting).

Mooy, Jan, 1776-1847, painter. (attributed to)

Ship Janson Cut through by Texel River Ice, (painting).

Watercolor on paper.

14 3/4 x 20 3/4 in.

Waterscape depicting a sailing vessel sinking bow first into an icy Texel River, the American flag still flying from its rigging, and its crew watching from rowboat floating nearby amid the chuncks of ice. In the backround two other American ship have come to the resue.

Waterscape -- Boat

Disaster -- Shipwreck

Landscape -- River

Architecture -- Boat -- Sailing Ship

Architecture -- Boat -- Rowboat

Occupation -- Transportation -- Sailor

Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, Massachusetts 01970 Accession Number: M8950

Brewington, "Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum," Salem, MA: Peabody Museum of Salem, 1968, pg. 220.

Brewington, "Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum," Salem, MA: Peabody Museum of Salem, 1968, no. 984.

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