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Frontispiece to The Mariners Magazine

Maker

(artist)
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

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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