Collecting and Studying Ship Portraits
Collecting and Studying Ship Portraits

Author: James Shuttleworth

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2023-06-23

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1039171451

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Ship portraits include paintings, prints, and photographs. A ship portrait is often more than just an image of a vessel. This book focuses primarily on paintings and prints, discussing the content of a portrait and how to interpret the information in it. For the new collector and current collector alike, students, ship modelers, and curators this book includes tools to help you navigate sources, auctions, research, flags, funnel marks, signatures, attributions, dates, condition, details, and restoration of ship portraits.

American-Built Packets and Freighters of the 1850s
American-Built Packets and Freighters of the 1850s

Author: William L. Crothers

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2013-06-07

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0786470062

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Up and down the Eastern seaboard during the 1850s, American shipyards constructed numerous large wooden merchant sailing vessels that formed the backbone of the commercial shipping industry. This comprehensive volume appraises in minute detail the construction of these ships, outlining basic design criteria and enumerating and examining every plank and piece of timber involved in the process, including the keel, frames, hull and deck planking, stanchions, knees, deck houses, bulworks, railings, interior structures and arrangements. More than 150 illustrations illuminate the size, shape, location and pertinent specifics of each item. Complete with a glossary of contemporary industry terms, this work represents the definitive study of the mid-nineteenth century's great American-built square rigged ships.