Ships & sea battles
Ship portraits, ship types and sea battles: galleons, men-of-war, Chinese junks, yachts at the regatta, ironclads and the great naval actions from Gibraltar to Trafalgar.
153 pieces
Antique Print of the Royal Flagship of the English Fleet by P. Mortier, c.1693
Naval Battle Lithographs in Frame– Etna and Palermo Engagements of 1676, Schotel
Detailed 1730 Maritime Warship Print with Tools, Rigging, and Ship Cross-Section
Naval lithograph of Russian fleet arriving in Toulon, France, in 1893
Antique Print of a Naval Vessel by Mortier '1695'
Rare Large 1650 Copper Engraving Depicting the Naval Battle of Gibraltar, 1607
Approaching Safe Harbor: The American Frigate's Return, circa 1920
Britannia's Pride at Sea: Return from the Anchorage, circa 1920
View of the Dardanelles: Fortified Hill and Ships, Hand-Colored Lithograph, 1840
Rare View of Olinda Pernambuco Brazil and Dutch Fleet, 1671
Antique Print of a Fleet of Nine Ships Departing to the East Indies '1603'
Anglo-French Fleet Entering the Black Sea from the Bosphorus, Crimean War, 1854
Large Portrait of Vice Admiral Abraham van der Hulst, Dutch Naval Hero, c.1666
Antique Print of the Dutch VOC Bombing Palembang, Sumatra (Indonesia), ca.1700
Decorative Engraving of VOC Battle Ships Attacking Palembang in Sumatra, ca.1700
Dardanelles Strait, Ottoman Turkey, Probst Optical View with Ships, c.1770
Before the Gales: An English Frigate Awaiting Wind, circa 1920
Maritime Salute: The Elegance of 18th-Century Naval Grace, circa 1920
Antique Print of the Fleet of William III of Orange by Merian 'c.1700'
La Réale French Royal Galley, Large Naval Engraving, c.1769
Rare City View of London and Westminster, Showing Many Battles Ships, 1804
18th-Century German Engraving, Allegory of War, Poem & Naval View
Ingenious Destruction: Fire Ship Design of the Eighty Years' War, 1632
A Brig at Anchor, Thames, Haden, 1870, British Etching Revival
Antique Great Yarmouth Fishing Boats Maritime Etching by E.W. Cooke, 1828
Bertuch African Slave Trade & Slave Ship Engraving, 1805
Conflict with Siam, a French Naval Action Scene, Épinal Colonial Print, 1893
Antique Print of a Vessel 'c.1850'
Engraving of Dutch Attacking the Portuguese Fleet off Bantam, Indonesia, 1644
Venetian Fleet vs. Ottoman Turks, Dardanelles Naval Battle Engraving, 1656
The Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson & British Fleet, 1805
Antique Print of Sestos in Turkey with Ships , circa 1680
Antique Print of the Exploding of the 'Alphen' in the Harbour of Curacao, 1779
Prince Albert Landing at Dover, Royal Maritime Engraving, c.1840
Naval Battle Off St. François (Campeche, Mexico), ca. 1780
Venetian Naval Battle Print, Rare Optical Vue of Venice versus Turks, c.1770
Dutch Inland Sailing Boats, Amsterdam–Haarlem & Delft–Rotterdam, Coronelli 1690
English Galleons & Dutch Vessels, Naval Ship Engravings, Coronelli 1690
Copper Engraving by Merian of The Battle Fleet off Constantinople, 1646
Prince Henry's Naval and Land Battle during the Seven Years' War Engraved, 1667
SMS Sachsen: Pioneering German Coastal Defense Ship, 1903 Chromolithograph
SMS Siegfried: Chromolithograph of a German Coastal Defense Ship from the 1890s
SMS Württemberg: German Coastal Defense Ship in Chromolithograph by Hugo Graf
SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II: German Flagship Battleship in Chromolithograph by H. Graf
SMS Baden: German Coastal Defense Ship in Turbulent Seas, 1903 Chromolithograph
SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm: German Pre-Dreadnought Battleship, 1903
German Navy Training Squadron: with SMS Victoria Louise and More, 1903
SMS Ägir: German Coastal Defense Ship, 1903 Chromolithograph
About ships & sea battles
Ship prints range from technical plates of hulls, rigging and ship types, made for encyclopedias and naval treatises, to portraits of named ships and dramatic scenes of battle and shipwreck. Galleons and men-of-war of the 1600s and 1700s, Chinese junks and Pacific canoes, Victorian yachts and the ironclads of the 1890s are all here.
Naval battles were a favourite subject of Dutch, French and English engravers, from the Dutch fleets in the East Indies and the Venetian wars with the Ottomans to Trafalgar.
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Questions about ships & sea battles
Are the ship prints originals?
Yes. Every print was made in its own day, by engraving, etching or lithography, for a book, a magazine or a set of plates. None is a reproduction.
What makes a ship print collectable?
Accurate rigging and detail, early date, original hand colour, a named ship or a famous action, and good condition with wide margins.