George Baxter, 1843 - The Wreck of the Reliance (November 12, 1842) - fine art print

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• Print on glossy acrylic glass: A glossy acrylic glass print, which is often named as a an art print on plexiglass, transforms your selected artwork into beautiful décor. What is more, the acrylic glass art print is a good alternative to canvas or aluminium dibond fine art prints. Your favorite artwork is made with state-of-the-art UV direct print technology. It creates stunning, rich color shades.
• Poster (canvas material): The poster is a printed cotton canvas with a slightly rough surface structure. A poster print is perfectly suited for putting your art print with the help of a personal frame. Please bear in mind, that depending on the absolute size of the poster we add a white margin 2-6 cm around the work of art, which facilitates the framing with your custom frame.
• Aluminium dibond print: An Aluminium Dibond print is a print with a true effect of depth, which creates a modern look throuch a non-reflective surface structure. The Direct Print on Aluminum Dibond is the best start to fine art replicas on aluminum. Colors are vivid and luminous in the highest definition, the fine details of the print appear crisp and clear, and you can notice a matte appearance of the art print surface.
• Canvas: A canvas print is a printed canvas stretched on a wooden stretcher. Your canvas print of your favorite work of art will let you turn your custom fine art print into a large size artwork like you would see in a real gallery. Hanging a canvas print: The advantage of canvas prints is that they are relatively low in weight, which means that it is easy and straightforward to hang your Canvas print without any wall-mounts. Therefore, a canvas print is suited for any kind of wall.

Important legal note: We try our utmost to describe our art products as accurately as possible and to display them visually in our shop. Nonetheless, the pigments of the printed materials, as well as the imprint might vary somehwat from the representation on the device's monitor. Depending on the settings of your screen and the condition of the surface, color pigments might not be printed as exactly as the digital version shown here. Because all the are printed and processed manually, there may as well be slight discrepancies in the size and exact position of the motif.

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George Baxter—known as “The Picture Printer”— made technically innovative work that often portrayed important mid-19th-century historical events. He based this dramatic shipwreck tableau on the description given by the only English survivor of a shipwrecked tea-merchant ship, the Reliance. Of the 116 passengers, only seven survived. Baxter used about 8 color blocks for this print, in addition to the intaglio “key,” exemplifying the intricacy of his procedure. This work attests to his ability to fashion vibrant, captivating prints, as well as his interest in Great Britain’s triumphs and tragedies.

The Wreck of the Reliance (November 12, 1842) is a piece of art created by George Baxter in 1843. The 170 year-old version of the masterpiece has the following size 300 × 415 mm (image); 305 × 420 mm (sheet). Steel engraving colored with wood-blocks in oil-based inks on paper was applied by the European painter as the technique for the painting. Today, this work of art can be viewed in in the Art Institute Chicago's art collection, which is one of the world’s great art museums, housing a collection that spans centuries and the globe. With courtesy of: Art Institute Chicago (licensed: public domain). Creditline of the artwork: Gift of Henry M. Huxley. What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with an image ratio of 4 : 3, which means that the length is 33% longer than the width.

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