Sujet

Boca do Inferno, scene of the accident to the Queen of Portugal and her children, 1873. Creator: RCH.

Légende

Boca do Inferno, scene of the accident to the Queen of Portugal and her children, 1873. Engraving of a sketch by '...Senhor Bordallo de Pinheiro...Queen Maria Pia...[and] her two little boys, Prince Carlos and Prince Alfonso,...were staying at Cascaes...[She] led her boys to see the Boca do Inferno, a cavern in the face of the cliff, made by the ceaseless force of the Atlantic waves...There are deep cracks or crevices across the sloping and slippery surface of the rocks, by which the Queen and her little sons attempted to reach the cavern. Few ladies but the fearless daughter of...King Victor Emmanuel would have chosen such a promenade on a wild gusty afternoon, when the sea had been lashed into fury by a recent gale...Suddenly a very large wave caught the little feet of the two children, and swept both into the cleft of the rocks, where the water was deep. The Queen leapt in after them, half swimming, half clinging to the rock, and held them during a moment of agonised suspense...Happily, their plight had been seen by a man belonging to the Guia lighthouse on the cliff, Antonio Silva. He...rushed to the spot, and lifted out of the cleft first Dom Carlos, next Dom Alfonso, afterwards helping the Queen to regain her footing on the rocks'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A13_014

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

22,8Mo (2,8Mo) / 31,3cm x 18,3cm / 3697 x 2160 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel Europe ocean sea water waves unusual coast arts coastal rocks rock Portugal danger wave art dangerous British geography accident cliff cliffs lighthouse Cascais Atlantic Ocean location century Britain rescue newspapers press print rough seas concept incident B&W chasm tourist attraction engraved engraving peril 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century tourism The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper landscape RCH Duke of rescued Porto Carlos I of Portugal 19th-century R. C. H. H. R. C. R.C.H. H. R.C. Maria Pia of Savoy Dona Maria Pia The Illustrated London News Boca do Inferno Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro Pinheiro Rafael Bordalo Rafael Bordallo de Pinheiro Bordallo de Pinheiro Rafael Rafael Augusto Bordalo Prostes Pinheiro Pinheiro Rafael Augusto Bordalo Prostes Dom Carlos I Afonso Duke of Porto Infante Dom Afonso of Braganza Dom Afonso of Braganza