Prof Claire Jowitt - @clairejowitt.bsky.socialさんのイラストまとめ

Handing over the Ship of State, Marie de Medici gives Louis XIII control of tiller of Ship of France at his majority 20 Oct 1614 ... particularly ❤️powerful 👩👩‍🦱👩‍🦰👱‍♀️rowers = virtues assigned to king = Force, Religion, Justice, Concorde #seafever 125/365 ⚓️
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Late-Stuart royal yacht sailing into a Mediterranean?harbour, under GB control from ships' flags & worn flag flying from fort on left; trumpeter announces ship's arrival = fantasy of GB expansionism, no such place under GB control in c17 #seafever 110/365 https://t.co/n1LMWhduaI

Thetis, costume design for a sea goddess, c1590, in a short brownish-yellow skirt adorned with sea-weed & 🐚 & her head-dress adorned with sea-weed & 🪸, French or Florentine design for an opera or ballet costume #seafever 103/365 https://t.co/ihRoaWpo4N

Milford Haven ('blessed Milford' Shakespeare's Cymbeline) key staging point on journeys to Ireland, 1595 🗺️ maybe by Paul Ive, military engineer in service to English 👑 with fortifications 🏘️ ⛵️ 🐟 & sea-monster + red Tudor compass rose #seafever 101/365 https://t.co/dIqW6qvULZ

Royal Visit (C2/DoY) to Fleet in Thames Estuary 1672, Willem van de Velde the Younger; busy scene of yachts & boats moving towards 'Prince' responding to signal of royal standard in mizzen shrouds calling a council-of-war of flag officers #seafever 94/365 https://t.co/qQYT8saQj4

Dutch Ships, 1647, 2 men standing seen from behind looking at title for series of Dutch ships inscribed on stern of warship in dock elderly man seated on barrels of canons smoking pipe & sailors, ships, crates, anchors, casks & wharves #seafever 88/365⚓️
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Reclining 👩on a 🐬 by Francois Boucher, c1730-40, maybe water nymph? 'style of the drawing - the animal’s roughly sketched head between👩’s outspread legs' suggests a study but 'motif does not appear in any of Boucher’s known paintings' #seafever 83/365 https://t.co/oGL06PT3Dk

Wrestling with final revisions to my article today! Here we go ...

Beached 🐋 nr Beverwijk witnessed by Prince Ernest of Nassau, Dutch, 1602; drawing made on site (shown) by Jan Saenredam, Jan 1601; Ernest has hanky to👃suggesting 🐋 smelly & decomposing; strandings = portents, here of earthquakes & plague outbreak in Amsterdam #seafever 52/365

English merchant ⛵️ EIC? in rough🌊
Allegory of life's perils, c17; on stern = figure of Fortune, naked 👩 with billowing sail, like 🌬️ unpredictable; ⛵️ is pursued by large 🐋 or sea monster = dangers of the passage; lone barrel floating = 🎁/prayers for safety #seafever 48/365