Stevengraph picture - st272: Grace Darling

by Austin Sprake:
The lighthouse keeper's daughter rowing in rough seas. Blue neck piece and skirts with red blouse.
STG180a: The same as STG180 except that the colours are quite different: green neck piece and skirts with mauve blouse.

by Geoffrey Godden:
This is a landscape scene of Grace Darling rowing her open boat, in very heavy seas, to the rescue of persons shipwrecked within sight of her father's Farne Island lighthouse in 1838. This subject is first listed on label 29+38 of 1893 and is found on card-mounts of types C and E. Twentieth-century examples are of slightly larger size than the earlier runs, which have a sight-length of approximately 5 1/2inches [14cm].
Variations in the colour of Grace Darling's clothing are recorded - some examples with a blue skirt, others with a green skirt and a mauve blouse, this latter version being normally of twentieth-century dating [see below].

Other comments:
This silk above of Grace Darling has on the reverse a label of 20+2 (dated at around 1886), although the front card-mount printing is type C3, dated around 1895.

Reference Number:-	Sprake Number:-	Godden Number:-
st 272	STG180	11

Words:	Woven on silk:- Printed at bottom of card-mount:- GRACE DARLING.
Size:	Card-mount: cm deep by cm wide silk: cm high by cm wide
Comments:	by Austin Sprake: The lighthouse keeper's daughter rowing in rough seas. Blue neck piece and skirts with red blouse. STG180a: The same as STG180 except that the colours are quite different: green neck piece and skirts with mauve blouse. by Geoffrey Godden: This is a landscape scene of Grace Darling rowing her open boat, in very heavy seas, to the rescue of persons shipwrecked within sight of her father's Farne Island lighthouse in 1838. This subject is first listed on label 29+38 of 1893 and is found on card-mounts of types C and E. Twentieth-century examples are of slightly larger size than the earlier runs, which have a sight-length of approximately 5 1/2inches [14cm]. Variations in the colour of Grace Darling's clothing are recorded - some examples with a blue skirt, others with a green skirt and a mauve blouse, this latter version being normally of twentieth-century dating [see below]. Other comments: This silk above of Grace Darling has on the reverse a label of 20+2 (dated at around 1886), although the front card-mount printing is type C3, dated around 1895.

GRACE DARLING