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Ship-Building Plate CCCCXLV

Author Augustin Francis Bullock Creuze (1800 - 1852)

Engraver George Aikman

Editor Professor Macvey Napier (1776 - 1847)

Publisher A & C Black Ltd (founded 1807)

Printer Thomas Allan & Co

Date1840

Object number00019694

NameEngraving

MediumInk on paper

DimensionsOverall: 273 x 210 mm, 0.008 kg

ClassificationsArt

Credit LineANMM Collection

Terms

DescriptionThis engraving is one of 15 published in 'Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Naval Architecture: Being the Article 'Ship-Building' in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Seventh Edition' written by naval architect Augustin F B Creuze and published in 1840. The large scene shows Norman shipping of the fourteenth century (taken from Jean Froissart's Chronicles). At the top are two ships of the eleventh century (taken from the Bayeux Tapestry), including Harold, Earl of Wessex landing in Normandy and William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy invading England. The encyclopaedia refers to the illustration to describe the term 'buckler-ports' as most probably derived from 'when the bucklers of the knights were ranged along the sides of the ship, as they are represented in the illustrations of Froissart, and the early chronicles, and even in the Bayeux Tapestry' (p. 12. 'Ship-Building', 1840).SignificanceThis engraving comes from the first edition of the separate book issue of Creuze's highly influential article on naval architecture.