Frontispiece to The Mariners Magazine
Maker
(artist)
1600-1699
(engraver)
active 1645-1685 (Life dates)
1600-1699
(engraver)
active 1645-1685 (Life dates)
Title
Frontispiece to The Mariners Magazine
Date of Production
1669
Dimensions
Height: 29.3 cm
Width: 18.9 cm
Width: 18.9 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.3947
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer, 1990
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
seafaring
mariner
gyroscope
Notes
Frontispiece to 'The Mariner's Magazine, or Sturmy's Mathematicall and Practicall Arts' of 1669
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: upper centre within image, printed: "STURMYS MATHEMATICALL AND PRACTICALL ARTS"; middle centre within image, printed: "THE / MARINERS MAGAZINE / or / Sturmys Mathematicall / and Practicall Arts. / Containing / The Description makeing and use of / the most usefull Instruments for all Artists / and Navigators. / The Arts of Navigation at large / a New way of Surveying of Land, / Gaging, Gunnery, Astronomy, and / Dyalling, performed Geome= / trically, Instrumentally, and / by Calculation / By / Cap: Samuell Sturmy / 1669 / and Fortification; lower centre within image, printed: "Tho: Cross Scuplsit"; lower centre mount, typed (later Witt inscription): "Thomas CROSS the Elder"
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