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A child being rescued from a shipwreck, two women are in the sea about to be rescued by a boat. Stipple engraving by A. Roffe after F.R. Roffe after W. Wyon.
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A child being rescued from a shipwreck, two women are in the sea about to be rescued by a boat. Stipple engraving by A. Roffe after F.R. Roffe after W. Wyon.

William Wyon

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: The rescue. From the medal executed by W. Wyon, R.A. For the Liverpool 'Shipwreck and humane society'. Drawn by F.R. Roffe. Engraved by A. Roffe.

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