Shipwreck off Nantucket (Wreck off Nantucket after a Storm), by William Bradford, ca. 1860–61
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Shipwreck off Nantucket (Wreck off Nantucket after a Storm)

William Bradford (American, 1823–1892)

ca. 1860–61

Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
40 × 64 in. (101.6 × 162.6 cm) Framed: 55 7/8 × 79 1/2 × 6 1/4 in. (141.9 × 201.9 × 15.9 cm)
Culture
American
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Wing
Credit line
Purchase, John Osgood and Elizabeth Amis Cameron Blanchard Memorial Fund, Fosburgh Fund Inc. Gift, and Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1971
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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