1860 c English Transporter, steamship, M.F.D., folio lithograph, hand colour

Extremely rare folio stone lithograph with original hand colour. Three masted large English transporter steamship.

Lithograph monogrammed M.F. [Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio]

“Grand transport anglais”

Published by J. Monroq.

Stone lithograph 30 x 23 cm

This example in ORIGINAL HAND COLOUR. 

Not held by the Royal Museums Greenwich. Cf. Polak 5515; Not in Bibliothèque Nationale, British Library, Library of Congress!

From e a super deluxe hand coloured edition of the extremely scarce album ‘Album de Marine’.

The first steamships to appear in the 1840s revolutionised maritime transportation, notably at the intercontinental level.

Morel-Fatio (Rouen 1810 – Paris 1871) was born into a family of bankers, was first trained in the art of navigation aboard an English merchant ship before he joined the parental bank. However, he turned to the arts and successfully showed his work ‘The Conquest of Algeria’ at the Salon in 1833. In 1838 he was entrusted by Horace Vernet with the execution of the ‘Battle of San Juan de Ulúa’ and voyages to Constantinople accompanying Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, future Napoleon III.

Condition: Excellent. almost unnoticeable clean tear to lower margin.