Environmental Graffiti

The British Man of War

An exceptionally scarce, detailed print of an 18th Century First Rate Ship of Line affords the opportunity to ruminate on these immense battleships of the past. Carrying over 90 cannons and roughly 800 men, such behemoths of the high seas stand for a time when the colonial tendrils of the British Empire gripped the world, largely through the military might of the British Navy.

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