Vessel in a shipyard ready for launch, 1800s. French frigate with one row of gun ports, blue ensign, supported by scaffolding and decorated with garlands and bouquets. Vaisseau sur le chantier pret a etre lance a l'eau. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1815. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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