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Image Not Available for Falconer's Shipwreck with Dodd's plates
Falconer's Shipwreck with Dodd's plates
Image Not Available for Falconer's Shipwreck with Dodd's plates

Falconer's Shipwreck with Dodd's plates

Engraver (1732 - 1769)
Maker (1748 - 1816)
Date1808
Object number00036895
NameBook
MediumPaper, leather, ink
DimensionsOverall: 327 x 258 x 29 mm, 1.5 kg
ClassificationsBooks and journals
Credit LineANMM Collection Purchased with USA Bicentennial Gift funds
DescriptionThe Shipwreck, a poem. By William Falconer, a sailor. Collated with the earlier editions. Quaeque ipsa miserrima vidi, et quorum pars magna fui virg.Aem. Lib.li. With additional notes and illustrations, and a sketch of the author's life. Embellished with descriptive engravings, by Robert Dodd, marine painter. HistoryWilliam Falconer was shipwrecked and drew upon that experience in the production of this poem. 'The Shipwreck' has been called 'the most popular English poem of the eighteenth century, a precursor of the Romantic Movement, and an influence on Byron's Don Juan. Falconer is also well known for his maritime dictionary, that is still in reprint today. He is the first author to use real nautical terms in English poetry. He died, lost at sea, in 1769. Robert Dodd was one of the principal recorders of the naval aspects of the American War of Independence.
An Universal Dictionary of the Marine
An Universal Dictionary of the Marine
William Falconer
1769
Letter addressed to McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co certifying that Mr Robert Dodds trimmed SS FEDERAL satisfactorily
Letter addressed to McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co certifying that Mr Robert Dodds trimmed SS FEDERAL satisfactorily
20 March 1901
Image Not Available for Dodds and Liley at the Pilot's and Tug Master's party
Dodds and Liley at the Pilot's and Tug Master's party
Eric Bolton Beeham
1980
Image Not Available for Second page of two page open letter issued by D M Dodds of the Port Jackson & Botany Bay Pilots Association to all pilots
Second page of two page open letter issued by D M Dodds of the Port Jackson & Botany Bay Pilots Association to all pilots
Eric Bolton Beeham
1977
Image Not Available for First page of two page open letter issued by D M Dodds of the Port Jackson and Botany Bay Pilots Association to all pilots
First page of two page open letter issued by D M Dodds of the Port Jackson and Botany Bay Pilots Association to all pilots
Eric Bolton Beeham
1977
Image Not Available for Document titled: William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine: Pump
Document titled: William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine: Pump
2006
Image Not Available for Document titled: Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine
Document titled: Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine
2006
Image Not Available for Document titled: William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine: Block
Document titled: William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine: Block
2007
Image Not Available for Document titled: William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine: Sheaves
Document titled: William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine: Sheaves
2007
Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacientium Typus
Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacientium Typus
Abraham Ortelius
c 1590
Image Not Available for HMAS SYDNEY Operation Falconer / Operation Catalyst Deployment, Arabian Gulf
HMAS SYDNEY Operation Falconer / Operation Catalyst Deployment, Arabian Gulf
2003
Image Not Available for Operation Falconer and Operation Iraqi Freedom Medallion
Operation Falconer and Operation Iraqi Freedom Medallion
2003