An English Second Rate of the smaller class. An: 1670

Object summary

Title: An English Second Rate of the smaller class. An: 1670
Object ID: CC-F-0027
Date made: 1801
Place made: United Kingdom, Greater London, London
Publisher: Blacks & Parry
Print maker: Tomkins, Charles
Painter (after): Velde, Willem van de, I; Velde, Willem van de, II
Object type: Etching; Aquatint
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

A three-quarter view, port side ship portrait after Van de Velde. On the tafferel is the British coat of arms flanked by four figures, a male soldier and a bust of a nude female from the waist up on each side. The gallery is decorated with angels.There are three open gun-ports on the port side; the rest are closed. 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. The collector, Arthur H. Clark, used this print from his collection to illustrate his book 'The History of Yachting, 1600-1815' (New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904), 98.