diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 52f66779b..15ecaab7f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 ==================
 ### Changed
 ### Added
+
+- added a try and catch block in lib/image.js in the setSource function, to prevent unexpected crashing, if an 'Unsupported image type' is provided.
+
 ### Fixed
 
 3.0.0
diff --git a/lib/image.js b/lib/image.js
index 4a37849ee..0fd67e99f 100644
--- a/lib/image.js
+++ b/lib/image.js
@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ function getSource (img) {
 }
 
 function setSource (img, src, origSrc) {
-  SetSource.call(img, src)
-  img._originalSource = origSrc
+  try {
+    SetSource.call(img, src)
+    img._originalSource = origSrc
+  } catch (err) {
+    img._originalSource = null
+    throw err
+  }
 }