Navy Board Ship Models - Couverture rigide

Stephens, Simon; Ball, Nick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1682473740 ISBN 13 : 9781682473740

Editeur : Naval Institute Press, 2018

Synopsis

From about the middle of the seventeenth century, the Navy's administrators began to commission models of their ships that were accurately detailed and, for the first time, systematically to scale. These developed a recognized style, which included features like the unplanked lower hull with a simplified pattern of framing that emphasized the shape of the underwater body. Exquisitely crafted, these were always rare and highly prized objects - indeed, Samuel Pepys expressed a profound desire to own one - and today they are widely regarded as the acme of the ship modeler's art. As benefits its subject, Navy Board Ship Models is visually striking, with numerous color photographs that make it as attractive as it is informative to anyone with an interest in model making or historic ships.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Simon Stephens and Nick Ball are curators at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Naval Institute Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1682473740
• ISBN 13: 9781682473740
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: GPSR Kontakt; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Allemagne