Das Schiff
A German plate of eight engraved views of sailing ships in varied sea conditions, published in Munich in 1853 by Karl Christian Köhler as an illustrated educational sheet on the life of a ship. The scenes run from harbour departure through storm, ice and wreck, with each vignette captioned in German beneath, giving a designer a clear sequence of nineteenth-century ship types and maritime moods to draw on for period seafaring motifs.
