Nautical Illustrations: 681 Royalty-Free Illustrations from Nineteenth-Century Sources (Dover Pictorial Archive) Paperback – August 22, 2003

This book is loaded with tons of great images, from single illustrations of ships, cannons, rowboats, sailors/captains etc, to fully illustrated scenery of ships at sea in different weather (storms, frozen into waters with icebergs, snow, sunny horizons, even tornado-struck waters) and different times of day. There are also fully illustrated scenes of men on deck doing work, nautical compasses, vintage diver & sunken ships, sea monsters, wild ship wrecks, lighthouses, steamboats....the list goes ON. The illustrations are amazing, black and white prints in vast amounts all within the slick pages of this slim green-edition Dover masterpiece. I would highly recommend this book as both a visual resource for referencing, and one to simply flip through and admire.

If you're looking for drawing or tattoo ideas look no farther. This has a ton of great ideas and concepts with a range of sailboats and the likes. I brought this book with me to get a tattoo and funny thing was my artist pulled out the exact same book at the shop! So you know artist use it, why shouldn't you?

Really nice reference material for artists, lots of beautiful line drawings showing ships in fair, stormy, and even arctic weather. Some images in it are very small though, pretty much useless, but I guess if all they do is fill some white space then why not have them.

While this book was incredibly beautiful to look at, it's not going to be easy finding uses for this clip art. Since I usually use Dover books for collage, rubber stamping and art purposes this wasn't so great for me. The images are so VERY detailed that most of the engravings are dark and shades of gray. They are finished pieces of art in their own way (not good for collage or taking parts of the image out to combine with other things.)I would only recommend this book for people who are looking for inspiration for drawing water or ships. These detailed pen drawings are really beautiful, just way more detailed than most clip art books. It is possible that you could still use these images for collage on a large scale, but you can't shrink most of these images without making them black (too small of lines.) This over-sized book (9.5" x 12") has such large images, many pages only having 2 or 3 images on them.

This book has some really good pictures of sailing ships and other cool things you can draw. So grab your pencils and paper and enjoy your day.

Great illustrations--just what I wanted!

I use alot of Dover Publication books for my magazine and very impressed by how fast the shipping was and how the book was in excellent shape and the price was incedible.. ]Thank you!

As an artist I like having this book around as a quick reference for imagery and accuracy of the times. It is a starting point for some of my pieces.