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Description: | A carved wood, ivory and alabaster figure of Grace Darling. The heroine sits on an alabaster rock looking out to sea with her left hand raised to her eyes, and her right resting on a lifebelt inscribed 'Grace Darling.' The well-modelled head, arms and bare feet are of ivory, her costume and the carved lifebelt are finely carved in wood, and the figure rests on a fruitwood base. It is the combination of alabaster with wood and ivory that led Sotheby's to catalogue the figure as probably Belgian.
Grace Darling (1815-1842), the daughter of William Darling the Longstone Lighthouse keeper on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast, is famed for her rescue, with her father, of nine survivors of the sinking SS Forfarshire in a violent storm on 6 September 1838. Rowing out to the rescue in a local coble, she became the archtypal heroine, inspiring many books and the manufacture of much popular pottery and other commemoratives.
caption: Statue of Grace Darling with a black background. A carved wood, ivory and alabaster figure of Grace Darling. The heroine sits on an alabaster rock looking out to sea with her left hand raised to her eyes, and her right resting on a lifebelt inscribed 'Grace Darling.'
caption: Statue of Grace Darling with a white background. A carved wood, ivory and alabaster figure of Grace Darling. The heroine sits on an alabaster rock looking out to sea with her left hand raised to her eyes, and her right resting on a lifebelt inscribed 'Grace Darling.'
caption: Detail photograph of head and shoulders of tatue of Grace Darling with a black background. A carved wood, ivory and alabaster figure of Grace Darling. The heroine sits on an alabaster rock looking out to sea with her left hand raised to her eyes, and her right resting on a lifebelt inscribed 'Grace Darling.'
caption: unavailable | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Darling Grace Horsley Collections Blog | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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