[Batty, Robert, (Lieutenant-Colonel)], d 1848 :[H. M. Ship Pandora in the act of foundering. Drawn and etched by Lieut. Col. Batty. From a sketch by the late Mr Peter Heywood. London, John Murray, 1831]

A three-masted ship about to go beneath the waves, with sailors climbing down ropes into life-boats below, and many already in the water.

Proof before letterpress, for the illustration in Barrow, John. The eventful history of the mutiny and piratical seizure of H. M. S. Bounty. opp. p. 187.

The Pandora under Captain Edwards, pursued the Bounty and its mutineers in 1792. The mutineers they had succeeded in capturing were shackled aboard the ship and went down with her when she foundered off the coast of Australia. The wreck was discovered in the 1980s.

Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).

Physical Description: Engraving, 105 x 150 mm