★ nglish: Engraving of a French reale galley in harbor from Plan de Plusieurs Batiments de Mer avec leurs Proportions (c. 1690). Engraving by Claude Randon.
★ La galere reale a la fonde" is one of a series of 17 folio-sized antique copperplate engravings created ca. 1690 by French galley Captain Henry Sbonski de Passebon. Engraved by Claude Randon, the collection of nautical architecture plates was first published from Marseille where, in the late 17th century the arsenal was home port to the galley (galre, Fr.) service of Louis XIV.
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De Passebon was stationed at Marseilles as a Lieutenant in the Corps des Galeres during the period that he produced the drawings from which these plates were engraved.