Ribs and chocks in merchant ships Alexander II of Russia 'The Agony in the Garden'

'The Agony in the Garden'

North-west view of the Jewel Tower

A fat tradesman stands at the door of a house chattering with an elderly couple

with figures and horse drawn carriages

with a street scene with figures

Ribs and chocks in merchant ships Alexander II of Russia 'The Agony in the Garden'Plate 8 figures 1 2 from the paper 'On a new principle of constructing ships in the mercantile navy', by Robert Seppings, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 110 (1820), pp. 133 143. Two illustrations showing the curvature of timber and a chock or wedge piece positioned to join a vessel's rib. Original: ink on paper. 1820