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    Late 19th century half-model of a Great Lakes sailing vessel, made by Erie-based mariner John Gray, probably during his retirement. Gray experienced first hand life on these vessels as he sailed out

    1 map : printed

    Water colour

    Silver gelatin print. Laid down on album page

    Watercolour on wove paper

    Aquatint, etching and watercolour on wove paper

    Water colour over pencil.

    Water colour over pencil. Mounted on cardboard. The centre of the sheet has been cut out, leaving blank margins on mount and re-mounted upside down on the same mount

    Steel engraving and water colour (c.1915?) on wove paper

    Several 1812-era ships caught in an afternoon thunder storm. Sailing can be challenging on the Detroit River because of rapidly changing weather.

    Watercolour, touches of gouache, over graphite, on wove paper

    Drawing of the reproductions of the fleet of Christopher Columbus sailed to the World's Fair in Chicago. Published in John Ross Robertson, Landmarks of Toronto: A Collection of Historical Sketches of

    Illustration from History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan: A Chronological Cyclopedia of the Past and Present (Detroit: Silas Farmer & Co., 1890) 3rd edition.