A Spanish Second Rate

Object summary

Title: A Spanish Second Rate
Object ID: CC-F-0011
Date made: 1801
Place made: United Kingdom, Greater London, London
Publisher: Blacks & Parry
Printmaker: Tomkins, Charles
After: Velde, Willem van de, II
Object type: Etching; Aquatint
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

Portrait of a ship after Van de Velde viewed from the quarter port side. On the tafferel is a relief of a noblewoman flanked by two putti raising laurel leaves. There are four gun-ports in the stern and on the port side protrude twenty-one gun-ports. The masts are shown, but without rigging.

This print is from volume 2 or 3 of John Charnock's 'An History of Marine Architecture' (London: R. Faulder, 1800-1802). It was considered the most authoritative book on eighteenth-century shipbuilding published in England.