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Eyes of the Admiralty : J T Serres, an Artist in the Channel Fleet, 1799-1800
Author(s): Barritt, Captain M K
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Near Fine |
| Dust Jacket: | Yes |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | Near Fine |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | National Maritime Museum |
| Publication Year: | 2008 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| ISBN: | 9780948065798 |
| Book ID: | 008156 |
| Catalogue(s): | Art ◇ War, Military History and Weapons |
144pp; illustrated throughout, mainly in colour. Navy cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. Decorative endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some minor shelf wear. Oblong 8vo. Makes available for the first time an astonishingly untapped source of visual material commissioned by the powerful civilian members of the Admiralty Board to increase their grasp of a critical theatre of operations in which the government were being pressed to conduct amphibious diversions to assist their continental allies.
Keywords:
Painter
Royal Navy
RN
war
battle
the sea
Art
channel fleet
marine paintings
