Attractive lithographic album of marine views, including four skilfully executed scenes of dockside life and shipbuilding. The eight plates were lithographed by Lemercier from sketches by Ferdinand Perrot (1808-1841), marine artist and pupil of Théodore Gudin. As an artist working in oils, Perrot produced numerous paintings of British naval scenes. The album is interesting as a visual record of nineteenth-century shipbuilding. Specifically, those four plates depict the following: a large ocean going vessel careened with spars removed; the process of squaring up logs prior to laying down the hull; five men at work on a floating platform coppering a hull (with details of two partially constructed vessels in the background), and two figures dwarfed by enormous anchors and winch at a dockyard.

Attractive lithographic album of marine views, including four skilfully executed scenes of dockside life and shipbuilding. The eight plates were lithographed by Lemercier from sketches by Ferdinand Perrot (1808-1841), marine artist and pupil of Théodore Gudin. As an artist working in oils, Perrot produced numerous paintings of British naval scenes. The album is interesting as a visual record of nineteenth-century shipbuilding. Specifically, those four plates depict the following: a large ocean going vessel careened with spars removed; the process of squaring up logs prior to laying down the hull; five men at work on a floating platform coppering a hull (with details of two partially constructed vessels in the background), and two figures dwarfed by enormous anchors and winch at a dockyard.