HMS 'Ganges', 8 August 1826, leaving Spithead RMG PU6126
HMS 'Ganges', 8 August 1826, leaving Spithead This watercolour shows the HMS 'Ganges' leaving Spithead, Portsmouth. She is not fully underway as only her upper sails are set. The artist seems to have taken libe... More
Teignmouthquay 1 - A painting of people standing on a dock next to a b...
Teignmouth New Quay in 1827 showing blocks of cut Haytor granite awaiting transport. Shaldon bridge and the river Teign are in the background.
Inflexible (1780); Africa (1781); Dictator (1783); Sceptre (1781)
Plan showing the inboard profile for Inflexible (1780), and later for Africa (1781), Dictator (1783), and Sceptre (1781), all 64-gun Third Rate, two-deckers.
1823-Ball-Gown-Diaphanous-Overskirt
An example of transitional style between the classically-influenced "Regency" fashions of the 1810s and the more incipiently Victorian styles of the second half of the 1820s — an 1823 engraving of a ball dress ... More
Henry Eckford ad - Public domain image of steamship
An advertisement for the steamboat Henry Eckford which appeared in The Northern Traveller, 1825.