[Spikes, ladle, hatchet, and other naval implements] [art original].

Description

Title: [Spikes, ladle, hatchet, and other naval implements] [art original].
Published / Created: [ca. 1820?]
Publication Place: England?
Description: Titled devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Place and date of production inferred from publication place and date of the book in which the drawing is found.
The nine depicted items, presumably tools used on a warship, are labeled in watercolor with their names and length measurements: Spunge &c. 9 feet long ; 2 f. 6 tomyhawk for boarding ; lower deck spunge & rammer ; Crow[?] iron 4 f. ; 9 feet ; 14 inch hatchet for cutting away [the] rigging ; Hand spike 5 feet ; 9 feet copper ladle ; Boarding spike 10 feet.
With another watercolor drawing on verso: [Spanish arms, swords and matchlock].
Mounted after page 276 (leaf numbered '56' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Provenance: Sold at Christie's, 20 October 1953, lot 285 of Derby sale, to W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 12.2 x 18.0 cm, inlaid to 38 x 27 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 53 Sp3 820a v.4
Collection Title: Volume 4, after page 276. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Collection / Other Creator: Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768.
Collection Date: London : Published by W.H. Carpenter, Lower Brook Street, and Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1820.

Access: Public
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Citation: Spikes, Ladle, Hatchet, and Other Naval Implements. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.