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Antoine Roux, Pere - Watercolours
C.
From "Sailing Ships Of The
Romantic
Era" by Jean Meissonnier
Small
fishing vessel said to be 'Catalan' - dated 1796
Ottoman-Greek zebec at anchor. Note the
mixed rig
of lateen and square sails - dated 1796.
A typical
French 40 gun
frigate - dated 1799
Entitled
'Ajax's Life Boat' rigged with the earliest
type of fore-and-aft sail
-dated 1800.
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A 'Catalan' fishing boat beached - dated 1800.
The French Ligurienne
and the British
covette Petrel exchanging broadsides 20 th
March 1800.
The San
Nicole, a 400 ton palacca,
moored by the island of
Pegue
off Marseilles drying
out her sails.
These vessel
carried grain from Black
Sea ports to Marseilles -dated
1806.
Unnamed
French
frigate of 20 guns - dated 1806.
A
becalmed privateer with oars
out and a tow - dated 1806
La
Boree, a French frigate of 60
guns depicted in the
harbour of
Marseilles on 12th April
1807.
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The same
Danish
ship painted twice
in different positions - dated 1809
A Danish
merchantman and a
Spanish pink (related to
the xebec) - dated 1809
La Volonte de Dieu, the
Marseilles bombard (bomb barge),
flying the white flag of the Restoration - dated 1816
An American
merchantman. A
painting of the same
vessel in two positions -dated 1818
The British 60
gun frigate, Fame,
anchored
off Endoum, a
shoreside district of Marseilles.- 1823
.
French
frigate La
Junun passing a smaller vessel
- dated 1823
A Swedish merchantship of
1827
A brigantine - dated 1829
A Spanish
frigate depicted in 1830
An unidentified French 40 gun frigate in 1830 off the
small island and
lighthouse of Planier
about 10 miles
south-west of Marseilles.
A British frigate under
shortened sail -dated 1830
A Spanish felucca making port. Although the original watercolour describes the vessel as a
felucca, it is more
likely a xebec with its thre pole masts rigged with lateen sails and a jib -dated 1830
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