New method of joining ribs of a merchant ship Finish:Rolled Pictured with Spyros Panagiotis Skouras

Pictured with Spyros Panagiotis Skouras

including a boy collecting water at a pump and a man in foreign dress on the right

10th February 1954

light-coloured dress with a patterned hem

New method of joining ribs of a merchant ship Finish:Rolled Pictured with Spyros Panagiotis SkourasPlate 9 figure 4 from the paper 'On a new principle of constructing ships in the mercantile navy', by Robert Seppings, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 110 (1820), pp. 133 143. Two illustrations to show shorter timber components for each rib connected by dowels. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Original: ink on paper. 1820