Norman ship with carved animal figurehead on the bow, striped sail, oars, church-like forecastle on the deck, 11th century. Vaisseau Northman. Similar to an engraving of an Anglo-Saxon ship in Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity. Handcoloured lithograph by Villain after an illustration by Horace de Viel-Castel from his Collection des costumes, armes et meubles pour servir à l'histoire de la France (Collection of costumes, weapons and furniture to be used in the history of France), Treuttel & Wurtz, Bossange, 1827.

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