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Hamburg Historical Naval Flags - part 2 (1716 - 1868)

Hamburger Seeflaggen - Teil 2 (1716 - 1868)

About Diderot and D'Alembert Encyclopedia
Ensigns within Diderot and D'Alembert

White Ensign
Three Towers Flag Variant#1
Three Towers Flag Variant#2
Red Ensign with Tower in Canton
Three Towers Flag Variant#3
Three Towers Flag Variant#4

18th Century Flag (reported 1716)
Flag of convoy ship 'WAPEN VON HAMBURG' (no.III) (reported 1720)
18th Century Flag (reported 1737)
18th Century Flag (reported 1737 and 1750)
18th Century Flag (reported 1737 and 1750)
Hamburg (1751-1835)
Hamburg (1751-1861)
Hamburg on French Flag Chart (reported 1756)

Flag#1
Flag#2
Flag#3

Hamburg on Spanish Flag Chart (reported 1756)
18th Century Flag (reported 1769)
blue 19th Century Flag (reported 1848)
Hamburg Merchant Ensign - Model 1837 (reported 1855)
Hamburg (1861-1868)

See also:

Historical Flags (Hamburg)
Hanseatic Cities (Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland)
Hamburg
Germany

About Diderot and D'Alembert Encyclopedia

These beautiful hand coloured copperplates have been selected from the famous Diderot and D'Alembert "Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des metiers" (Encyclopedia, or a systematic dictionary of the sciences, arts, and crafts), an encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1766, with later supplements and revisions in 1772, 1777 and 1780 and numerous foreign editions and later derivatives.
Diderot's encyclopedia is a landmark work of the enlightenment that depicted the arts and sciences, and the tools and methods of artisans and trade people in a methodical and thorough way. The entire encyclopedia was published between 1751 and 1772, and comprised 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates. The marvellous detailed plates show how everything in the period was made. It had a huge impact on its own time, and is highly valued by present-day historians as a record of the techniques and vocations of the pre-industrial world. It is also a great resource for collectors, art and craftspeople. Louis-Jacques Goussier (Paris 1722 - 1799) was a French illustrator and encyclopedist. He is famous for his work on Diderot's encyclopedia. He was the first drawer to be hired on that project, in 1747 and he did himself more than 900 plates and directed the drawing of the others. Some call him the third encyclopedist, after Diderot and d'Alembert. Goussier spent ten years visiting people of all arts and techniques (textile, smith, mill, glass, etc.), and twenty-five years drawing. He also wrote sixty-one articles.
You can find various plates from different editions of the vol. Marine withinthe www., eg. here of the 1769 edition B/W in Petra Sancta Code (plates only) or here the 1751 edition displaying the complete set of four coloured double -lates, furthermore an uncomplete set of B/W plates of the 1780 edition and finally a single plate (no. 18) of the 1760 edition here.
My images are based upon B/W images in Petra Sancta code plus the descriptions as given in the reprint. The illustrations based on Goussier have been made by Benard.
located by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Sep 2013

Ensigns within Diderot and D'Alembert

Flags ##1-4 are taken from from the 1780 version. The 1751 version has coloured plates. Different are the flags #5 and #6. There is another flag in both versions, which is however obviously model 1644 as depicted within our pages.