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Over-Groot Zee-geveght; tussen den Holl. Heer L. Adm. Tromp, en den Eng. Adm. Blaak; op den i. Martius A9. 1653.
Over-Groot Zee-geveght; tussen den Holl. Heer L. Adm. Tromp, en den Eng. Adm. Blaak; op den i. Martius A9. 1653.
[Engraved by Jodocus Hondius III after Jan Abrahamszoon Beerstraten.]
[n.d., c.1655.]
Etching, rare. 140 x 175mm (5½ x 7"). Trimmed to printed border, extra margin added.
A view of the Battle of Portland, a three-day naval battle (18-20 February 1653 or 28 February - 2 March 1653 in the Gregorian calendar used here), part of the First Anglo-Dutch War. The outline of the English coast is shown from the Isle of Wight east to Beachy Head (Bevesier), with Portsmouth, Arundel and Newhaven., with a key of the ships. The battle pitched Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp against Admiral Robert Blake in the English Channel. Despite Tromp withdrawing before Blake could commence a fourth day of action and Blake's capture of between 20-40 Dutch merchantmen and at least eight Dutch warships, both sides claimed victory. From a series of illustrations by Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten (1622 - 1666) of the war.
[Ref: 34396]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Launch of the Nelson at Woolwich, July 4th, 1814.
Launch of the Nelson at Woolwich, July 4th, 1814.
Drawn by Luke Clennell. Etched by G. Cooke & Engraved by W.B. Cooke.
London, Published Oct.r 1, 1814, by W.B. Cooke, 12 York Place, Pentonville.
Engraving. 155 x 255mm (6 x 9¾"), with very large margins. Uncut.
The ceremonial launch of H.M.S. Nelson, a 120-gun first rate. Launched in 1814, she was converted to screw propulsion and rearmed to 90 guns in 1860, before being handed over to the government of the Dominion of Victoria, Australia, in 1867. She was sold in 1898 as a storage hulk and later used as a coal hulk, and was finally scrapped in 1928. From 'The Thames' by Samuel Owen (c.1769-1857).
[Ref: 34046]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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H.M.S. Victory, First Rate.
H.M.S. Victory, First Rate. 104 Guns. Portsmouth Harbour. The Flag Ship of the late Lord Nelson. On board which he was killed Off Trafalgar. Oct.r 21st, 1805.
Drawn by E.W. Cooke. Etched by E.W. Cooke. 1830
Pub'd by R. Lambe & Son, 96 Gracechurch Street.
Etching. 270 x 325mm (10½ x 12¾").
H.M.S. Victory at anchor off Portsmouth, serving as a harbour ship. Her career included the First and Second Battles of Ushant and St Vincent, with a three-year refit (1800-3) before the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. In 1922 she was moved into a dry dock at Portsmouth for preservation as a museum ship. Today she is the flagship of the First Sea Lord and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission.
[Ref: 34043]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Santa Barbara's Cross, (A Spanish Superstition.)
Santa Barbara's Cross, (A Spanish Superstition.) To B. Boyd Esq.r Yacht Wanderer, R.Y.S.
O.W. Brierly del.t. On Stone by J. Brandard. M. & M. Hanhart, Lith. Printers.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph, very scarce with large margins. Sheet 295 x 235mm (11½ x 9¼"). Corners trimmed, small scuff in surface, laid on album paper, some spotting.
The schooner 'Wanderer' en route to Australia in 1841, in a gale with lightning and a cloud formation to the left called 'Santa Barbara's Cross' which the Spanish regard as an ill-omen. On board was Benjamin Boyd (1801-51), the owner of the yacht, and the artist Oswald Walters Brierly (1817-94). Ben Boyd, a stockbroker, hoped to capitalise on the resources of Australia. He had founded the Royal Bank of Australia in London, but, when he arrived in Port Jackson in 1842, he used the money raised for his own purposes rather than operate a true bank. He bought flocks and took up squatters rights, becoming one of the largest landowners in the colony, established Boydtown at Twofold Bay, a port from which he could co-ordinate his shipping, whaling and pastoral interests. In 1847 he imported a number of Pacific islanders as cheap labour, which failed as the islanders had no idea what was expected of them and made Boyd unpopular with the European settlers. When anti-squatter laws were introduced Boyd's finances failed, and in 1848 he lost control of the Royal Bank of Australia, which was placed in the hands of a liquidator the following year. Boyd then left Australia on the 'Wanderer' to try his luck on the Californian goldfields. Disappointed in America, he set sail to cruise the Pacific but disappeared on a visit to Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in October 1851, with rumours that he had been killed by cannibals. The 'Wanderer' was wrecked off Port Macquarie upon its return to Australia. Oswald Brierly remained in Australia also, managing Boyd's whaling station at Twofold Bay 1842-48, before making a two-year voyage with Captain Owen Stanley on HMS Rattlesnake recording surveys of the Great Barrier Reef, Torres Strait, parts of New Guinea and the Louisiade Archipelago. He then sailed with Henry Keppel on HMS Meander to New Zealand, Tahiti and South America before returning to England. Brierly visited Australia again in 1867-8 when he accompanied the first Royal visit of HRH Prince Alfred Duke of Edinburgh on HMS Galatea during its royal tour.
The original pencil sketch is in the Australian National Maritime Museum, Object 00030594. Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34062]   £520.00  
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