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Catalogue >Fine Art >  General >  Ports of the World - Prints from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, c.1700-1870 Ports of the World - Prints from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, c.1700-1870 Cindy McCreery This book showcases some of the finest examples of The National Maritime Museum's collection of prints of ports from this period. Prints are analysed as commercial and art objects, rathers than as simple historical records of matters maritime. The aim is to address a broad audience , including general readers of eighteenth and nineteenth century British and colonial history, those interested in ports and maritime affairs, and those with an interest in prints themselves. 176 pages, 90 colour and 40 mono illustrations, cloth, 259 x 259mm ISBN 0 85667 505 9 | Retail price £24.95 Unfortunately this book is now out of print.  Online price: £17.50 / €26.25 The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were a period of enormous political and commercial development across the globe. Of particular importance was the revolution in transportation and communication by sea, with the concomitant growth in size and importance of the seaport. Despite growing awareness that the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were a formative period in the development of maritime art, there has been relatively little exploration of maritime prints. This is extraordinary, since the period c.1700-1870 was a golden age of print production and saw the development of new forms of engraving such as aquatint and lithography, as well as the production of beautiful examples of line engraving and woodcut. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the establishment and expansion of major ports not just in Britain, but in continental Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and in North and South America. The National Maritime Museum, upon which collection this book is based, is at the centre of the preservation and display of Britain's maritime heritage. Its print collection reveals the firm link between art and commerce in the development of these ports. Dr Cindy Mcreery is currently Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctural Research Fellow in the School of History at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She has published articles on eighteenth-century British prints, including political and social caricatures and maritme engravings. She is currently preparing a monograph on eighteenth-century British caricatures of women, and is researching the representation of Australian and New Zealand port communities in eighteenth and nineteenth century engravings.