Nautical Illustrations: 681 Permission-free from Nineteenth-century Sources

While this ebook is meant is meant for all who love boats, ships, historical past, and nautical lore, additionally it is designed as a definitive supply of top quality, royalty-loose pictures to be used by means of artists, photograph designers, computer publishers, advert businesses, and extra. This choice of 681 picket engravings comprises placing examples of one of the vital global’s such a lot stunning boats and ships. A few of the many well-known vessels on this extent are Columbus’s ships, the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria; King Henry’s VIII’s Great Harry; the Pilgrim Fathers’ Mayflower; Henry Hudson’s Half Moon; King Charles I’s Sovereign of the Seas; Captain Prepare dinner’s Discovery; the HMS Bellerophon; Fulton’s Clermont; and the Great Eastern. Amongst well-known naval battles proven are the war at Actium, the invasion of the Spanish Armada, Dutch-English engagements within the seventeenth century, Anson’s Centurion shooting a Spanish treasure send, Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar, Perry’s triumph at Lake Erie, and the Civil Battle ironclad contest among the Monitor and the Merrimac.
This extent comprises all kinds of vessels: rowboats, funeral barges, Venetian gondolas, catamarans, Local American canoes, Chinese language junks, tugboats, canal boats, barges, yachts, brigs, barks, sloops, skiffs, catboats, quite a lot of varieties of vessels used for fishing and whaling, ships in misery, and extra. There also are examples of nautically comparable subject material: navigational tools, diving fits and helmets, lighthouses, canal locks, dry docks, the Suez Canal, helmsmen, send captains, seamen at paintings, deck scenes, and interiors of boats. taken from uncommon resources — depict primitive canoes, a Roman galley, send figureheads, naval battles, dock scenes, lighthouses, pirate ships, steam-powered battleships, and a wealth of alternative topics. Transient captions determine footage, which might be organized chronologically. Options over 600 black-and-white illustrations from uncommon resources, organized chronologically.