 Francis Place, brown & grey wash, 8 x 12½, after 1700, one of three similar storms from Francis Place, exhibition catalogue 1971, no 88FRANCIS PLACE 1647-1728 Durham - York




 An English Royal Yacht near Sheerness, c 1675; etching by F.Place from A Pageant of the Sea, p.115, M.S.Robinson, 1950It seems to me that Monamy was familiar with these etchings by Francis Place. Ships being careened: a favourite theme of Reinier Nooms, or Zeeman, died 1667. From L.J.Bol, p. 291 Inset: Monamy 1730 (reversed).

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