John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Size:S: 40 x 30cm View of the Quaker's Meeting

View of the Quaker's Meeting House on Redcross Street

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He won 3 Grands Prix in his short career before he was killed at the Nürburgring in Germany

Inscribed in pencil top right 'Photog 253'

the latter in the shape of a lion's head

John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Size:S: 40 x 30cm View of the Quaker's MeetingJohn Ericsson, Swedish born American engineer and inventor, (c1880). On moving to the USA in 1839, Ericsson designed many warships including the 'Monitor' (1861), the first warship with an armoured turret, and 'The Destroyer' (1878), which could launch submarine torpedoes. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.