<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>[Spikes, ladle, hatchet, and other naval implements] [art original].</dc:title><dc:date>[ca. 1820?]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Titled devised by curator.</dc:description><dc:description>Unsigned; artist unidentified.</dc:description><dc:description>Place and date of production inferred from publication place and date of the book in which the drawing is found.</dc:description><dc:description>The nine depicted items, presumably tools used on a warship, are labeled in watercolor with their names and length measurements: Spunge &amp;c. 9 feet long ; 2 f. 6 tomyhawk for boarding ; lower deck spunge &amp; 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.</dc:description><dc:description>With another watercolor drawing on verso: [Spanish arms, swords and matchlock].</dc:description><dc:description>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.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>