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Bending the foresail &c. – Historic Print

Bending the foresail &c., 1843 — antique engraving
Bending the foresail &c., 1843. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Bending the foresail &c., an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Bending the foresail, the seaman's task of fastening a sail to its yard before hoisting, is the subject of this engraving, which appeared on page 53 of an 1843 New York edition of Darcy Lever's *The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor*. Lever's manual was first published in England in 1808 as a practical handbook for junior officers, and American reprints like this one helped spread its illustrated lessons in rigging and seamanship. The plate is worth a close look for its details of sailors' posture and rigging, which show how work aboard a sailing vessel was actually carried out.

Created / published1843
Medium1 print : engraving.
NotesIllus. in: The Young sea officer's sheet anchor / Darcy Lever. New York, E. & G.W. Blunt, 1843, p. 53. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,287 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146743

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