Large landscapes (BM R,5.11) - Public domain scenic engraving

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Large landscapes (BM R,5.11) - Public domain scenic engraving

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Landscape with the shipwreck of St Paul at Malta (or the shipwreck of Aeneas); a coastal scene with a blazing beacon on the summit of a rocky outcrop; in right foreground two figures emerge from a shipwreck battered by waves, one desperately grasps the mast; another figure grabs the branches of a tree that has snapped; at left, a survivor sits before a fire with his rightescuers; after Peter Paul Rubens. c.1638
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1638
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British Museum
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