Title:
'Grace Darling and her Father Saving the Shipwrecked Crew, September 8th, 1838', (1942). Creator: William Bell Scott.
Caption:
'Grace Darling and her Father Saving the Shipwrecked Crew, September 8th, 1838', (1942). In 1838 Grace Darling and her father William Darling, a local lighthouse keeper, heroically rescued victims of the wreck of the SS 'Forfarshire' off the Farne Islands. She died from tuberculosis in 1842, aged just 26. Design made 1857-1858 for the decoration of the inner court of Wallington Hall, Northumberland. From "English Women", by Edith Sitwell. [Collins, London, 1942]