A Calm. Calme.Twelve Sea Pieces neatly Engraved from Monamy and Vanderveld.
Monamy Pinxt. J. Caldwal Sculp.
Printed for Robt. Sayer Map & Printseller at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1800.]
Etching, wove paper watermarked 'I Taylor', 180 x 275mm. 7 x 10¾". Lower right margin chipped.
A fleet of ships under sail on a flat-calm sea. From a series; titles in English and French. Numbered '1' upper right and 'No.21' upper left. After Peter Monamy (1681 - 1749). London-born painter Monamy (he was born in the Minories and baptized at St Botolphs Aldgate) 'emerges with Samuel Scott as one of the two leading figures in the first generation of British marine painters [...] he worked industriously for at least forty years and has left us a rich heritage of paintings illustrating the nation's naval history in the first half of the 18th century' (E.H.H. Archibald, 'Dictionary of Sea Painters').
NMM PAI7836.
[Ref: 19950] £140.00
Printed for Robt. Sayer Map & Printseller at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1800.]
Etching, wove paper watermarked 'I Taylor', 180 x 275mm. 7 x 10¾". Lower right margin chipped.
A fleet of ships under sail on a flat-calm sea. From a series; titles in English and French. Numbered '1' upper right and 'No.21' upper left. After Peter Monamy (1681 - 1749). London-born painter Monamy (he was born in the Minories and baptized at St Botolphs Aldgate) 'emerges with Samuel Scott as one of the two leading figures in the first generation of British marine painters [...] he worked industriously for at least forty years and has left us a rich heritage of paintings illustrating the nation's naval history in the first half of the 18th century' (E.H.H. Archibald, 'Dictionary of Sea Painters').
NMM PAI7836.
[Ref: 19950] £140.00