A group of fools piloting the ship of state, breaking the mast & steering towards a cliff ... from Narrenschiff, a broadside satirising powerful people as ignorant & stupid, 1630 ... evergreen image lost count+1/365
https://t.co/AOzUvlPSgd

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2022-09-06

A female triton holding a bow & a child-triton riding a dolphin ... not sure🐬 is very happy about it ... by Pellegrino Tibaldi, c16 279/365 🐬🐬🐬https://t.co/lUMOdHDGG7

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2022-08-20

*Love* the detail on this! Unidentified departing VIP from Middelburg, 1615; warship De Zeehondt is being towed to sea by 4 BIG draught 🐎 with BIG crowd in tow, Stadtholder Maurice’s yacht present & fires a salute; 🐶🐕🐩leading & cavorting in 🌊 222/365

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2022-08-13

Stirling Castle, 70 gun, 3rd rate, launched 1673; lost on Goodwin Sands in Great Storm, 1703, & items recovered from wreck: ship's furnace, hour glass & deck slate = reusable log to record hourly progress for noting down later in ship's formal log 194/365

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2022-07-15

32-gun ship, poss the Nassau, on tankard given to Giles Shelley, who captained the Nassau to Madagascar in 1698, favorite haunt of 🏴‍☠️Captain Kidd. Shelley returned to New York with a vast amount of 🪙 but was suspected of complicity with Kidd 183/365 💰🏴‍☠️⚓️

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2022-07-03

'Fairfax' (1653), 'Assurance' (1646), 'Tiger' (1647) & 'Elizabeth' (1647), Isaac Sailmaker?, c1680? ... intriguing picture, since ships' identities/likely date of panting don't match, since Elizabeth sunk in 1667 ... read about it here https://t.co/LVnCyZ7pDj 144/365

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2022-05-25

ahuhuhuyuuu ……….. siobhan……………

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2022-05-20

Intrigued by this Ferdinando Bertelli print, c1561-71, entitled 'Catching the goose from a boat' ... look at all those spectators! Not sure of the 'rules' or what happened to the poor bird ... 🪶 134/365 https://t.co/YK03IPTlHZ

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2022-05-15

Münster, South America labeled in German, geographic features in Latin, from Cosmographei, 1550 126/365 https://t.co/0UkxkDsCeR
Munster's map of America = earliest 🗺️ to show all of N & S America in a true continental form & shows Magellan's ⛵️ Victoria in Pacific

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2022-05-07

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 125/365 ⚓️
https://t.co/G7FZvuATF7

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2022-05-05

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 110/365 https://t.co/n1LMWhduaI

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2022-04-20

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 103/365 https://t.co/ihRoaWpo4N

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2022-04-13

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 101/365 https://t.co/dIqW6qvULZ

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2022-04-11

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 94/365 https://t.co/qQYT8saQj4

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2022-04-04

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 88/365⚓️
https://t.co/9TBIfYcZLR

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2022-03-29

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' 83/365 https://t.co/oGL06PT3Dk

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2022-03-24

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 52/365

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2022-02-21

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 48/365

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2022-02-17

Dark & Stormy ... Three Ships in a Gale, Willem van de Welde, 1673 18/365 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
https://t.co/HCxxf5Didb

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2022-01-18