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A view of His Majesty's Dock Yard at DEPTFORD in the County of KENT, on the River Thames and also A view of His Majesty's Dock Yard & Garrison at SHEERNESS, in the Isle of SHEEPY, at the Mouth of the River THAMES & MEDWAY. J. Cleveley jun'r pinx't [painted it] Carrington Bowles excudit [printed/published by] LONDON. Published as the Act directs 1st Jan'y 1772. Printed by CARRINGTON BOWLES, No.69 in St. Paul's Church Yard. Two hand-coloured engravings published 1772 by the English print and map seller Carrington Bowles (1724~1793). Both engravings are after paintings by John Cleveley Juniour (1747~1786)*. Titles printed in both English & French*. As the prints are hand-coloured, no two are the same. The colour palette and application of paint, alongside the number and position of smaller details such as birds and clouds etc., appear to be at the colourist's discretion. Frames measure 30 x 45.5 cm (roughly 12 x 18 inches) and so the prints will measure a little less. Labels to rear: Charles E. Luton. Dealer in works of art and antiques. Picture frame manufacturers. 214, Broad St., Birmingham, 15. 'Hogarth' style frames scratched and chipped to corners with small piece of molding missing from one. Prints age-toned with odd mark here and there. Backing paper brittle in places. Crease to lower left corner of Deptford print and possible/probable loss of tip to upper left corner (please see images). Unexamined out of frames. --- *Vue du Chantier de la Majeste' a DEPTFORD, dans le Comle de KENT, sur las Tamise. [Translation: View of the Majesty's Shipyard at DEPTFORD, in the County of Kent, on the Thames.]--- Vue du Chantier et de la Forteresse de SHEERNESS, dans L Isle de SHEEPY, a L'embouchiere des Rivieres Tamise et MEDWAY. [Translation: View of the Shipyard and the Fortress of SHEERNESS, in the Isle of SHEEPY, at the mouth of the Rivers Thames and MEDWAY.] --- John Cleveley the Younger (24 December 1747 ? 25 June 1786) was a British artist and marine painter. Ceveley was the son of John Cleveley the Elder (c.1712 ? 21 May 1777) . He and his twin brother Robert were both, like their father, marine painters. John and Robert were both brought up and trained in dockyards, but (particularly by producing pictures especially for print reproduction) addressed much wider audiences with their art than their father had done. He trained under the artist Paul Sandby at Woolwich. He was Joseph Banks' draughtsman on his journey to the Hebrides, Orkney, and Iceland, his sketches were worked into watercolour. John was employed to turn drawings made on Captain Cook?s second voyage to the South Seas (1772?75) into engravings, and later also got access to some of the art produced on the third voyage, 1776-80 (via drawings and eyewitness accounts made by his brother James, who was a carpenter on the third voyage). Despite going on neither expedition personally, John produced images for the print market such as the Death of Cook, & HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery at Moorea. John the Younger painted the Royal Dockyards at Deptford, Woolwich and Chatham reminiscent of 17th-century Dutch Golden Age marine art. The Isle of Sheppey is an island off the northern coast of Kent, England, neighbouring the Thames Estuary, centred 42 miles from central London. 36 square miles & part of the district of Swale. Sheppey, Old English for Sceapig, meaning "Sheep Island". Historically known as the "Isles of Sheppey", the Isle of Harty to the south east and the Isle of Elmley to the south west. Over time the channels between the islands silted up to make one contiguous island. Henry VIII, requiring the River Medway as an anchorage for his navy, ordered that the mouth of the river should be protected by a small fort. Garrison Fort was built in Henry VIII, requiring the River Medway as an anchorage for his navy, ordered that the mouth of the river should be protected by a small fort. Garrison Fort was built in 1545. Seller Inventory # 001044
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