Ships turning to the windward = Vaisseaux se relevans au vent [engraving]

Ships turning to the windward = Vaisseaux se relevans au vent [engraving]

London : Printed for Carington Bowles next the Chapter House in St. Paul's Churchyard, [ca. 1765]

1 col. engraving : ill. ; 29 x 43 cm. on a leaf 46 x 29 cm.

IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff

At lower left margin: 17; perhaps one of a series of illustrations from a larger work. E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, vol. 1, p. 503, mentions 9 marine plates published in 1721.
Date of imprint inferred from Carington Bowles' address in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1764-1793 -- Plomer. Dict. of booksellers and printers, 1726-1775.
Hand colored
Five British ships in the foreground; two more in the background to viewer's left.
On leaf 90r of The Tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-57

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