print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1864,0611.89
- Title
- Object: An English Second Rate of the smaller class, An: 1670
- Description
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A ship, showing the decorated stern with a crest, angels and four gun-ports and the port side, with twenty-five gun-ports in the two lower decks, most of them closed and twelve round openings in the upper and quarter deck, the masts shown but no rigging; after Van de Velde; from Charnock's 'Marine Architecture'. 1801
Aquatint and etching
- Production date
- 1801
- Dimensions
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Height: 269 millimetres (image)
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Height: 293 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 461 millimetres (image)
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Width: 483 millimetres (trimmed?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Charnock's 'Marine Architecture' was published in 3 volumes in 1801-1802, the text illustrated with engravings as well as aquatints. It formed the 'most authoritative book on eighteenth-century ship-building published in England', according to Abbey. Thirty-five booksellers are named on the title-pages. The majority of plates are dated 1802 and most are published by John Sewell, but nine other publication addresses appear. Twelve plates were published by R Faulder in 1796, which, as Abbey remarks is difficult to reconcile with the publication dates of the others, especially as he says there is no evidence that they were published in parts.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Marine Architecture
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1864,0611.89
