Sweden.- Lindebladh (Swedish, active c.1720) and others. Collection of 15 original drawings and plans for shipbuilding and various associated architectural projects, including within the Karlscrona shipyard, including 3 signed and dated plans by Lindebladh from 1721, an original drawing after a plan by Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, indistinctly signed but dated 1778, an unsigned plan for the dock's lock entrance dated 1721, and two variant cross sections of a battery ship, one dated 'Strasbourg 1784', with two architectural plans for barrel storage, pen and inks, watercolours, some pencil, on various papers, various sizes between 440 x 280 mm (17 1/4 x 11 in), some losses, splits to old folds, handling creases, surface dirt and light browning, all unframed, [mainly 18th century or slightly later] (15)

Provenance:
Some with Carl Råbergh-Mannerskantz (1747-1817)
Carl Axel Mannerskantz (1809-1888)
Värnanäs Manor, Hallstorps socken, Småland, Sweden; by descent.

⁂ This collection of plans and drawings may have been informed and collected by an engineer and architect working in the circle of Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, who in 1765 had begun to undertake his Architectura Navalis Mercatoria publication. Chapman's book contained 62 illustrations of ships and smaller vessels, both Swedish and foreign designs. Some of these were Chapman's own designs, but many were also types that he had seen during visits to foreign countries.