Painting. [SS Great Britain] / J. Walter, c1847. Oil on canvas; 62x92cm in frame, 88x113x6.5cm. Signed bl. Portrait of the 3500-tons, iron screw steam ship Great Britain (1843), when beached ashore, Dundrum Bay Ireland, depicted at high water and in a gale, in December 1846. She ran ashore in September 1846, and remained in this position for 11 months, exposed to the full force of gales from the west and south-west and nearly submerged at every high tide. [She was refloated in August by Captain Claxton RN using a breakwater of faggots, stones and birch trees, designed by IK Brunel; see also, pendant painting 1865-36/2]