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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Representation of a Scene of the County Naval Free School on Waste Land.
S.H. Grimm Pinxit. Fran.s Chesham Sculp.t.
[London: Marine Society, 1783.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark, rich & rare impression. 380 x 470mm (15 x 18½"), with large margins. Margins chipped and age-toned. Abrasion and hole in right, within the tree. Left corner repaired crease.
A scene of a proposed free school for poor boys, preparing them for naval life. It shows the boys using apparatus for training for loading canon and winching an anchor, drilling and using navigation instruments, as well as ploughing and other agricultural activity. This plate was published in 'Proposal for County Naval Free Schools, to be Built on Waste Lands', by Jonas Hanway, written for humanitarian as well as patriotic reasons, the year that the American Revolutionary War ended in failure. After spending more than the year's income on the society on preparing the book (for which Hanway was censured), it was issued to privy councillors, lord lieutenants, influential MPs and admiralty and naval boards. However the plan was downsized by the society, and a single training ship was commissioned, anchored at Greenwich. As well as founding the Marine Society in 1756 (to procure seamen for the Seven Years' War), Hanway (1712-86) was a vice president of the Foundling Hospital, instrumental in the establishment of the Magdalen Hospital and a commissioner for victualling the navy (experimenting with ways to alleviate scurvy amongst seamen). He is said to be the first male Londoner to carry an umbrella, facing down heckling hackney coachmen.
[Ref: 68274] £480.00
S.H. Grimm Pinxit. Fran.s Chesham Sculp.t.
[London: Marine Society, 1783.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark, rich & rare impression. 380 x 470mm (15 x 18½"), with large margins. Margins chipped and age-toned. Abrasion and hole in right, within the tree. Left corner repaired crease.
A scene of a proposed free school for poor boys, preparing them for naval life. It shows the boys using apparatus for training for loading canon and winching an anchor, drilling and using navigation instruments, as well as ploughing and other agricultural activity. This plate was published in 'Proposal for County Naval Free Schools, to be Built on Waste Lands', by Jonas Hanway, written for humanitarian as well as patriotic reasons, the year that the American Revolutionary War ended in failure. After spending more than the year's income on the society on preparing the book (for which Hanway was censured), it was issued to privy councillors, lord lieutenants, influential MPs and admiralty and naval boards. However the plan was downsized by the society, and a single training ship was commissioned, anchored at Greenwich. As well as founding the Marine Society in 1756 (to procure seamen for the Seven Years' War), Hanway (1712-86) was a vice president of the Foundling Hospital, instrumental in the establishment of the Magdalen Hospital and a commissioner for victualling the navy (experimenting with ways to alleviate scurvy amongst seamen). He is said to be the first male Londoner to carry an umbrella, facing down heckling hackney coachmen.
[Ref: 68274] £480.00
![[A sailing ship in a storm.]](jpegs/68326.jpg)
[A sailing ship in a storm.]
A Ballin D.t S.t.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Etching on chine collé. 330 x 420mm (13 x 16½"). Trimmed to image on right, into plate top and left.
By French painter and etcher Auguste Ballin (1842-85 or 1909).
[Ref: 68326] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
A Ballin D.t S.t.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Etching on chine collé. 330 x 420mm (13 x 16½"). Trimmed to image on right, into plate top and left.
By French painter and etcher Auguste Ballin (1842-85 or 1909).
[Ref: 68326] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)