Description | English: Ornament from the Commerce and Industry Illustrators series, American Type Founders |
Date | 1923 |
Source | ATF specimen book |
Author | Anonymous |
Category Archives: Ships & Boats
The Great Race from Shanghai Between Cutty Sark and Thermopolae
Description | English: The clippers Cutty Sark and Thermopolae racing |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Chatterbox for 1923 (https://archive.org/details/chatterbox-1923/page/171/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
This scalable illustration can be used at any size.
Dock with Merchandise
Description | English: Ornament from an 1830 typefounder’s catalogue |
Date | 1830 |
Source | Specimen of Printing-Types, and Ornaments, from the Letter Foundry of J. Howe & Co. (https://archive.org/details/specimenofprinti00jhow/page/n181/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
This scalable illustration can be used at any size.
Sidewheeler
Description | English: Advertising cut of a sidewheeler, 1830 |
Date | 1830 |
Source | Specimen of Printing-Types, and Ornaments, from the Letter Foundry of J. Howe & Co. (https://archive.org/details/specimenofprinti00jhow/page/n169/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
This scalable illustration can be used at any size.
Ship with Billowing Sails
Description |
English: Title-page engraving, probably meant for the Golden Hind, from a French account of Drake’s voyage, 1588
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Date | |
Source | Le voyage de Messire François Drake chevalier (https://archive.org/details/levoyagedemessir00bigg/page/n3/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
The background has been made transparent.
Dutch Ships, Boats, and Ports, 1596
Description |
English: Illustration of Dutch ships and boats, with vignettes of ports, from a 1596 book
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Date | |
Source | Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, van Ian Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien (https://archive.org/details/itinerariovoyage00lins) |
Author | Lambert Cornelisz. |
In the vignetted version above, the background has been made transparent outside the oval.
Humanae Vitae Conditio
Description |
English: “Humanae vitae conditio”—the state of human life—represented by a tempest-tossed ship
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Date | |
Source | Iani Iacobi Boissardi Vesuntini Emblematum liber (https://archive.org/details/vesuntiniemblema00bois/page/24/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Shipped
Description |
English: Printer’s ornament with shipping theme
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Date | |
Source | Specimen of Printing Types and Ornaments from the Letter-Foundry of J. Howe, & Co., Philadelphia, 1830 (https://archive.org/details/specimenofprinti00jhow/page/n5) |
Author | Anonymous |
The background has been made transparent.
Boatbuilder’s Yard, Rye, from the Water-Colour Drawing by Albert Goodwin
Bristol, from the Water-Colour Drawing by Albert Goodwin
Description |
English: Painting by Albert Goodwin reproduced in a 1910 magazine
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Date | or before |
Source | The International Studio (https://archive.org/details/internationalstu10newy/page/n129) |
Author | Albert Goodwin |