Artist: Benito Lleonart I Pons
Museum: Naval Museum (Madrid, Spain)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
The picture shows a view of the La Carraca Dockyard, used as a site for building and maintaining ships, as well as for building, repairing, storing, and distributing weapons and ammunition.Located in San Fernando (Cádiz), the dockyard was built in 1752 during the reign of Ferdinand VI, as part of the program of reforms introduced by the Bourbons to improve the Spanish Navy. The main docks were built during the 1780s and it was from here that several frigates and corvettes were launched. These included the famous vessels
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