Charles Hunt After Knell - Framed Late 19th Century Engraving, H.M.S. Geyser

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An evocative early 20th-century watercolour attributed to Charles Bentley (1806-1854) capturing sailing boats navigating choppy waters, with foamy waves crashing against the dock. Un...

Fine late 19th-century nautical watercolour. Ships off a choppy coastline. The buoy has been inscribed 'Shambles', and the watercolour has been heightened with white. Well presented ...

John Francis Branegan (1843-1909)- original watercolour. Inlet on the Scaur. Signed and inscribed to the lower left. Presented in a fine gilt-effect frame with internal slip. On paper.

20th Century, watercolour on paper. Early Brig off North East Coast. Signed to the lower left. Mounted in a gilt frame with the title and artist's signature verso.

Sunderland is an etching realized in 1845 by E. Finden. Signed on plate. The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.

America is an original artwork realized around 1830. Original black and whiteprint Quite good conditions except for foxings especially along the margin. Original title L'America. ...

Lithographic print of the fight of the French frigate Minerva against two vessels and an English frigate on February 2nd, 1779, taken from the book Historical Gallery of Versailles 430. Chacoane is the engraver. Original print by Victor Gilbert Théodore Gudin...

This beautiful 19th century framed engraving "The Fighting Temeraire" by James Tibbetts Willmore is based on an original painting by the renowned British artist J.M.W. Turner. It was published by James S. Virtue & Co. in London between 1859-1875. It depicts the once mighty British warship the HMS Temeraire being towed away down the river Thames by a much smaller steamboat to a ship-breaking yard to be broken up for scrap. The Temeraire was first launched in 1798 and represented the pinnacle of British ship-building. 180-feet long, constructed of English oak and armed with 98 guns, she was one of the largest warships of the period. The Temeraire became a symbol of British pride and military power that endured throughout the 19th century. The man-of-war served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was among the last serving ships to have been at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It became one of the many older ships put out of service in the 1830s and 1840s. The once mighty and feared ship symbolizes a once magnificent, but now obsolete, technology. Turner seems to lament her inglorious final journey, being towed by a less magnificent, but modern steam powered tugboat. The Turner painting was created in 1838 and is now held in the National Gallery in London. Willmore's engraving, created in 1859, captures the dramatic scene with great detail and skill. The image has become an iconic representation of the decline of Britain's naval power and the transition from sail to steam in the 19th century. The sunset in the background is symbolic of the sun going down on British naval power and tradition. The painting conveys profound and diverse themes that are central to the human experience: those of mortality and change, technology and progress, heroism and brutality. The painting demonstrates Turner’s skill as an artist. His ability to produce scenes of great beauty that are dramatic, but are also symbolic, stimulating both thoughtful analysis, as well as emotion. Turner's painting was voted by the British public in a 2005 BBC radio sponsored survey to be the British people's favorite painting of all time. In 2020 it was included on a new British banknote...