Collecting and Studying Ship Portraits

By: Shuttleworth, James

Ship portraits include paintings, prints, and photographs. A ship portrait is often more than just an image of a vessel. This book focuses primarily on paintings and prints, discussing the content of a portrait and how to interpret the information in it. For the new collector and current collector alike, students, ship modelers, and curators this book includes tools to help you navigate sources, auctions, research, flags, funnel marks, signatures, attributions, dates, condition, details, and restoration of ship portraits.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1039171443
• ISBN13: 9781039171442
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 2.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.0"