- Created by
- Eileen Agar 1899–1991
- Title
- Photograph of a shipwreck at Gunnard’s Head, Cornwall
- Date
- 1960–1
- Medium
- Negative
- Dimensions
- 66 × 62 mm
- Description
- Eileen Agar recalled that people rushed to see the wreckage upon hearing that the ship was carrying whisky. (Relayed to Tate upon acquiring the photographs).
- Format
- Photograph - negative
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Eileen Agar in 1989 and transferred from the photograph collection in 2012.
- Reference
- TGA 8927/16/53
Archive context
- Photograph collection belonging to Eileen Agar TGA 8927 (953)
- Photographs of ships, boats and shipwrecks TGA 8927/16 (57)
- Photograph of a shipwreck at Gunnard's Head, Cornwall TGA 8927/16/53
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