Ribs and chocks in merchant ships Alexander II of Russia Interior view of Somerset House

Interior view of Somerset House showing an exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1787

At the beginning of 1876

North-west view of the Jewel Tower

'The Agony in the Garden'

Also with figures and a lamplighter on Aldersgate Street

Ribs and chocks in merchant ships Alexander II of Russia Interior view of Somerset HousePlate 8 figures 1 2 from the paper 'On a new principle of constructing ships in the mercantile navy', by Robert Seppings, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 110 (1820), pp. 133 143. Two illustrations showing the curvature of timber and a chock or wedge piece positioned to join a vessel's rib. Original: ink on paper. 1820