DESCRIPTION: Detailed engraved plate illustrating the construction and internal arrangement of a large wooden sailing warship. A central longitudinal cutaway reveals the vessel's multiple decks, gun positions, mast supports, storage compartments, and carefully distributed supplies. Casks, coiled rope, and other stores fill the hold, showing how the ship's interior accommodated the equipment and provisions required for extended service.
Additional elevations and sections illustrate the hull's timber framework, diagonal bracing, exterior planking, and underwater form. Smaller numbered figures examine structural joints, fastenings, curved timbers, and transverse hull sections, while geometric drawings record the curves used to define the vessel's shape. The plate combines practical construction details with an unusually informative view of a warship's working interior.
Engraved by Henry Winkles, whose imprint appears at the lower right. Marked "Taf. 9" in the upper margin.
Johann Georg Heck (1795 - 1857) was a German bookseller and publisher, lithographer, and cartographer. Heck's works include: "The art of building in ancient and modern times, or, architecture illustrated."; "Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art. (Six volumes)"; "Illustrations to mathematics and astronomy"; and "The sciences, or, Chemistry, mineralogy, and geology illustrated."
PUBLICATION DATE: 1851
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: N/A
CONDITION: Good.
Clean except signs of handling in the margins. Solid.
COLORING: None
ENGRAVER: Henry Winkles
SIZE: 10
" x
8 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 78
PRICE: $140
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