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The radeau, French for “raft,” was North America’s oldest warship.

This story has been corrected to show the radeau’s name was “Land Tortoise” and it was sunk in Lake George, not Champlain.

Easily depressed or elated, G�ricault took to heart the hostility which this work excited, and passed nearly two years in London, where the “Radeau” was exhibited with success, and where he executed many series of admirable lithographs now rare.

This abstraction and Mr. Pomare’s sculptural sense of space — his configurations are always interesting, often surprising — save “Radeau” from melodrama, despite the scream with which it ends.

Then three vessels under sail, and one at anchor above Split Rock, and behind it the radeau, Thunderer.