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Masters of maritime art : a second loan exhibition of drawings from the collection of Capt. Bruce S. Ingram /with an introduction by ... Geoffrey Callender. 1937. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 7.047(26)"15/18"

Ships on maps : pictures of power in Renaissance Europe /Richard W. Unger. Unger, Richard W. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 912.43:629.5"15/16"

Hydraulic machinery for triple 14 inch 50 cal BL guns : arrangement of shell room and powder magazine (transverse sections) Vickers-Armstrongs Limited 1931 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.941

The elements of optics. In four books Emerson, W 1768 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 535:094

Mapping London : making sense of the city /Simon Foxell. 'Mapping London' is a compelling anthology that explores over six centuries of maps. The book is a cartographic journey through the city, tracing its fascinating evolution and exploring the hopes and fears of its inhabitants as events unfold. 2007. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 528.9(421)

The camera lucida in art and science / John H. Hammond, Jill Austin. "In this fascinating historical survey of the camera lucida's many and varied guises and uses John Hammond and Jill Austin introduce the reader to the invention, development and decline of this once popular sketching aid." 1987. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681/.41

Exhibition of marine paintings, drawings and watercolours, May 8 - May 20, 1972 / Malcolm Henderson Gallery. Malcolm Henderson Gallery 1972. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 75.047(26)

Flying heads and snapping limbs : imagining violence at sea in early seventeenth-century Dutch maritime art /Michel van Duijnen. "Exploding ships, flying heads, snapping limbs: the Rijksmuseum collection holds some of the most explicit and violent paintings of early modern maritime warfare. Dating to the early seventeenth century, these large works were often commissioned by Dutch civic or military institutions to celebrate the victories of the Dutch Republic over the Spanish Crown at sea. The pioneering Dutch maritime painters of the time who worked on these prestigious commissions showcased a lively interest in the extreme violence that characterized naval warfare. Famed painters such as Hendrick Vroom, Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen and Adam Willaerts all painted gory scenes of snapping arms, flying heads and dismembered torsos. The explicit details found in these paintings provide a unique window on the rise of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Commissioned by the rich and powerful, these works of art raise important questions about the glorification of violence, the self-image of the Dutch Republic as a military power, and the unique place of naval warfare in Dutch visual culture. In Flying heads and snapping limbs, Michel van Duijnen explores this new, different view of these impressive maritime paintings by discussing details that were previously overlooked and by asking questions that have never been asked before, giving them new and often unexpected and unexplored meanings."--Page 4 of cover. [2021] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 759.9492

The fouling and corrosion of iron ships : their causes and means of prevention, with the mode of application to the existing iron-clads Young, Charles F T 1867 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 620.193:629.12.011

Van de Velde drawings : a catalogue of drawings in the National Maritime Museum made by the Elder and the Younger Willem van de Velde Robinson, Michael S • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

The astrolabe / by James E. Morrison. "The Astrolabe is the most complete treatise available on the subject and includes the description, history, use, theory and design of all types of astrolabes and related devices, updated to modern methods and terminology. Application of computers to astrolabe design and practical advice on making a working astrolabe are included."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 522.4

Hydraulic machinery for pair 14 inch 50 cal BL guns : outline of barbette mounting Vickers-Armstrongs Limited 1930 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.941.2

Masters of maritime art : loan exhibition of drawings from the collection of Capt. Bruce S. Ingram /with an introduction by ... Geoffrey Callender. 1936. • FOLIO • 3 copies available. 061.43(083.83):7.047(26)"15/18"

Conservation mounting for prints and drawings : a manual based on current practice at the British Museum /Joanna M. Kosek ; with contributions from Christina Angelo ... [et al.] Kosek, Joanna M. 2004. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 069.445

Turner and George the Fourth in Edinburgh, 1822 / Gerald Finley. Finley, Gerald E. 1981. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7TURNER:74

The Grand Fleet : a war-time sketch book /by John Coleridge "Book of drawings made in H.M.S. Glorious, or her boats, as the scenes actually presented themselves. Those of ships in motion were rapidly sketched in pencil on odd bits of paper and copied out in ink immediately afterwards. The circular one were drawn through cabin scuttles."--Provided by the author. ca1918. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.82(42)"1914/1918"

Black Swan class sloops : detailed in the original builders' plans /Les Brown. "The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the as fitted' general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. Intended to provide a permanent reference for the Admiralty and the dockyards, these highly detailed plans were drawn with exquisite skill in multi-coloured inks and washes that represent the acme of the draughtsman's art. Today they form part of the incomparable collection of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, which is using the latest scanning technology to make digital copies of the highest quality. This book is one of a series based entirely on these draughts which depict famous warships in an unprecedented degree of detail - complete sets in full colour, with many close-ups and enlargements that make every aspect clear and comprehensible. Extensive captions point the reader to important features to be found in the plans, and an introduction covers the background to the design. This volume is devoted to the sloops of the Black Swan class and its improved derivatives, widely regarded as the Rolls-Royce' of Second World War convoy escorts. Heavily armed and superbly equipped for their role, they were among the most effective anti-submarine ships of the battle in the Atlantic. The design was gradually improved and this book uses plans of four selected ships to chart that development. These comprise: Black Swan as built; Flamingo as modified later; Starling, the single most successful U-boat hunter of the war, as in 1943; and Amethyst, as refitted after her clash with Chinese communists on the Yangtze in 1949."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.822/50223

Sea Journal : seafarers' sketchbooks /Huw Lewis-Jones "The sea has been an endless source of fascination, at once both alluring and mysterious, a place of wonder and terror. The Sea Journal contains first-hand records by a great range of travellers of their encounters with strange creatures and new lands, full of dangers and delights, pleasures and perils. In this remarkable gathering of private journals, log books, letters and diaries, we follow the voyages of intrepid sailors, from the frozen polar wastes to South Seas paradise islands, as they set down their immediate impressions of all they saw. They capture their experiences while at sea, giving us a precious view of the oceans and the creatures that live in them as they were when they were scarcely known and right up to the present day. In a series of biographical portraits, we meet officers and ordinary sailors, cooks and whalers, surgeons and artists, explorers and adventurers. A handful of contemporary mariners provide their thoughts on how keeping a journal remains integral to their voyaging lives. Often still bearing the traces of their nautical past, the intriguing and enchanting sketches and drawings in this book brilliantly capture the spirit of the oceans and the magic of the sea."--Provided by the publisher 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 741.9(26)

Masters of maritime art : a third loan exhibition of drawings from the collection of Capt. Bruce S. Ingram /with an introduction by Geoffrey Callender. Ingram, Bruce 1938. • PAMPHLET • 3 copies available. 7.047(26)

Georg Forster : the South Seas at Wèorlitz "While Captain Cook went off to measure the world, Georg Forster as his father's scientific assistant and the naturalist artist on board explored recently discovered coastlines and islands including New Zealand and New Caledonia, Tahiti and Tonga. Three years later he spent two weeks in Wèorlitz, where he reported on his voyage in the spirit of the Enlightenment. This volume, lavishly filled with plates, historic paintings and drawings as well as interesting quotations by Forster and his contemporaries conjures up the world of Polynesia with objects from the South Seas including the grass skirt of a Tahitian dancer, two maces from Tonga and an axe of jade-green nephrite from New Zealand."--Provided by the publisher. 2019 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 7FORSTER

The arts of industry in the Age of Enlightenment / Celina Fox. "During the 18th century, the arts of industry encompassed both liberal and mechanical realms - not simply the representation of work in the fine art of painting, but the skills involved in the processes of industry itself. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Celina Fox argues that mechanics and artisans used four principal means to describe and rationalize their work: drawing, model-making, societies, and publications. These four channels, which form the four central themes of this engrossing book, provided the basis for experimentation and invention, for explanation and classification, for validation and authorization, and for promotion and celebration, thus bringing them into the public domain and achieving progress as a true part of the Enlightenment."--Provided by the publisher. c2009. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 5:7"17/18"

Compass and rule : architecture as mathematical practice in England, 1500-1750 /Anthony Gerbino and Stephen Johnston ; with a contribution by Gordon Higgott. Gerbino, Anthony. c2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 721.011"15/17"

R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth : the ultimate ship /Clive Harvey. Harvey, Clive. 2008. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123QUEEN ELIZABETH

Material memories of travel : the albums of a Victorian naval surgeon /Felix Driver "This paper considers the visual archives of maritime scientific exploration, from coastal sketches to ethnographic observation. It focuses on seven albums of John Linton Palmer, a British naval surgeon who served in the Pacific in the 1850s and 1860s, which are today part of the collections of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). Through their drawing, recording and collecting, naval surgeons like Linton Palmer played a significant role in the development of natural history and ethnography during the nineteenth century. The paper discusses the historical significance and potential contemporary uses of the Linton Palmer albums in the context of three forms of memory-making: firstly, the documentation of topographic, antiquarian, ethnographic, microscopic and other field observations by means of drawing; secondly, the assembling of such materials into personalised albums, part of a distinctive nineteenth-century naval tradition by which the experience of travel was re-collected (in the case of Linton Palmer within the scientific culture of late-Victorian Liverpool); and thirdly, the contemporary uses of such forms of visual heritage in a variety of contexts from family history to Indigenous land claims."--Provided by the publisher. [2020?] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

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