Introduction to Drawing Ships. A Ninety Eight Gun Ship in the Stocks

Technique includes etching.; Plate No.1.; Bound with PAD7464-PAD7470. The title plate of a set of eight aquatints by Sayer (1725-94), loose bound under a plain cover (ZBA4931). The plates were later reissued by his successors, Whittle and Laurie for which see PAD7471-78,.

As a London print publisher Sayer traded from 1748 as successor to Philip Overton. From 1774 he traded as Sayer and Bennett, before the latter withdrew.Sayer was in turn succeeded - as Laurie & Whittle - by his assistants Robert Laurie and James Whittle from 1794 (though effectively from 1792 under the short-lived trade name of Robert Sayer and Co.) until 1812, when Laurie died and was succeeded by his son Robert Holmes Laurie. Until 1818, when Whittle died, the firm was Whittle & Laurie, and thereafter R.H. Laurie until after the latter's death in 1858. Its successor business still exists, publishing yachting material from St Ives (Cambs), as Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson.
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