Physical Description:
1 book (37 leaves) ; 16 cm. Notes:
Book of 72 hand-drawn, color flags, depicting papal, royal,
national, military and merchant standards. Also included are family
and city emblems and the black flag of the filibusters. Created ca.
1702, based on flag drawn on leaf 37, dated 1702. Eight (8) blank
leaves precede 37 numbered leaves that bear the color images of
flags, followed by another eight (8) blank leaves. Title supplied
by cataloger. Subjects:
Flags. ; Standards, Military. ; Ships -- Flags, insignia, etc. ;
Emblems, National. ; Guidons. ; Warships -- Flags, insignia, etc. ;
Signals and signaling. ; Merchant marine -- Signaling. ; Naval
auxiliary vessels -- Flags, insignia, etc. ; Navies. ; United
States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Naval operations. Form/Genre:
Flags 18th century. (aat) Physical Collection:
Papers of Charles-René-Dominique Sochet Destouches, 1754-1804
(bulk 1780-1781) ; Orderly Books of the American Revolution. Provenance:
Purchased from the American Art Association, 1926. Cataloging Notes:
The blank pages at the beginning and at the end have been imaged,
however, they have been included in the compound object online.
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