Pen lithograph of a crowded raft on rough sea with a torn sail, clustered survivors, sprawled bodies in the foreground, and a small distant ship.

Shipwreck of the Medusa, lithograph by Géricault

A black-ink pen lithograph shows a crowded raft on choppy water, with a tattered sail on a mast and many figures clustered and sprawled among wreckage. Some bodies lie limp in the foreground while others reach toward a distant ship on the horizon, and the printed caption sits beneath.

Artist: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
Date: 1820
Medium: Pen lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1189 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1820).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection

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