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Shipping and Craft by E.W. Cooke. 1828 - 1831

Fishing Boat Arrived. Image size 12 x 9 cms Plate size 18 x 15 cms Code EWC 002	N.F.S.	Yarmouth Herring Boat Unloading at the Quay. Image size 16 x 14.5 cms Plate size 20 x 17 cms Code EWC 003
£45		£45
Sheer Hulk in Portsmouth Harbour. Image size 15.5 x15.5 cms Plate size 17.5 x 17.5 cms Code EWC 004		Dutch Galliot & c Great Yarmouth Image size20.5 x16.5 cms Plate size 23 x 18 cms Code EWC 005
£45		£45
The Stationers Barge Image size 11 x 17 cms Plate size 14 x 18 cms Code EWC 006	The Hasting. Seventy Four. Lying in Ordinary in the Medway. Image size 14 x 20.5 cms plate size 17.5 x 23 cms Code EWC 007	Cowes Boat &c Coming out of the Harbour. Image size 11 x 15 cms Plate size 12.5 x 16.5 cms Code EWC 008
£45	£45	£45
Thames Barge (going before the wind) off Northfleet. Image size 10 x 15.5 cms Plate size 11 x 16.5 cms Code EWC 009	Dutch Schuyt &c Blackwall Reach. Image size 12 x 17 cms Plate size 15 x 20 cms Code EWC 010	Collier &c (Calm) Image size 10 x 15.5 cms Plate size 15 x 20 cms Code EWC 011
£45	£45	£45
A Brig of War's12 Carronade. Image size 17 x 21 cms Code EWC 012	The (Circular) Stern of His Majesty's Ship Asia. 84 Guns. One of the ships in the engagement at Havaring. Image size 17 x 21 cms Code EWC 013	Peter Boats at Greenwich Image size 17 x 21 cms Code EWC 014
£45	£45	£45
Barges Image size 17 x 21 cms Code EWC 015	Fishing Smack &c Image size 16.5 x 20 cms Code EWC 016	The Discovery. Convict Ship (Lying at Deptford) The vessel which accompanied Capt. Cook, on his last voyage. Image size 16.5 x 20 cms Code EWC 017
£45	£45	£45
Barge. Canal Boats &c. Image size 16.5 x 20 cms Code EWC 018	Fishing Smack. Schooner. Sloop rigged Barge. Image size 9 x 17 cms Code EWC 019	Prison Ship. in Portsmouth Harbour. Convicts going on board. Image size 16 x 23.5 cms Code EWC 020
£45		£45
Mud Dredger Image size 16.5 x 21 cms Code EWC 021		Anchors. &c. Image size 16.5x 20.5 cms Code EWC 022
£45		£45

   

click to enlarge	A VIEW OF THE BRITISH FISHERY.  Off the South Coast of Shetland.  For the London Magazine. Printed for R. Baldwin  Junior. C 1800. There is some text offsetting on  the verso of the print, otherwise a good strong  image. It is in an indigo colour mount.  Handcoloured in watercolour.  Size of image 7 1/4" x 9 3/4"  Size of mount 11 3/4"x 13 3/4"             Code NBF 04	£20
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 Further Information
Edward William Cooke is considered one of the great marine artists of the 19th century.  These are a few examples of his engravings from Sixty-five Plates of Shipping and Craft , a series of etchings published between 1828 and 1831.

Cooke (1811-1831) was born into a family of engravers. His father and uncle were specialists in etching on copper, and the young Edward was surrounded by the works of John Sell Cotman , James Stark and Clarkson Stanfield, works which were engraved by his family. Taking advantage of his love for the sea and sailing vessels, a teenage Edward created plates of ships and boats demonstrating an attention to detail and an infusion of life to his illustrations. 

Cooke later took up painting in oils and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1835 and 1879.  He travelled extensively in France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, Morocco and Egypt, but a personal favourite was Holland, which he visited eight times between 1837 and 1860. Today, his work is displayed in several museums including Britain's National Maritime Museum at Greenwich.

The condition of these prints is good bearing in mind they are more than 180 years old.
The paper on some is slightly mottled.
The images are still strong and have been engraved on thick creamy woven paper .
Each print measures approximately 30 x 20 cms
(11 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches) .