The engraving room is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5. Commissions for the winter ledger close 14 December. Every plate on this site is a work of fiction, made for a demonstration catalogue.  The engraving room is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5. Commissions for the winter ledger close 14 December. Every plate on this site is a work of fiction, made for a demonstration catalogue.  
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9 10 42 19 48 7 THE LONG SOUND · TIDAL ATLAS PLATE IX

THE LONG SOUND · TIDAL ATLAS PLATE IX

Plate 87 · 1931

The Long Sound

Tidal Atlas Plate IX took three winters. The surveyors rowed the Sound on slack water and again at full flood, timing drifts with a pocket chronometer and a cork float, and the engraving carries their patience: sixty-one drift arrows, each one timed and signed in the margin by the man who threw it. It is the most asked-for plate in the catalogue and the slowest to print.

Plate
Copper, hand-engraved
State
1st of 2, 1931
Paper
Banknote wove, 240 gsm
Edition
120 impressions
Margins
Full, wide lower margin
Reference
MC-LS-31
£620 Ask the daybook

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