A whole plate size salt paper calotype print. A starboard bow view of an unidentified barque dried out at moorings at Swansea. Off her port bow is a port quarter view of an unidentified schooner also at moorings dried out.

Reverse has been annotated in pencil by Admiral Ballard in 1934: 'Swansea 1836' and corrected by another hand '?5' [i.e. 1856].

In a letter from Calvert Jones to WHF Talbot, dated 3 November 1846, he lists the 'Large Talbotype' negatives that he took at Swansea. There is no postive identification as to which negative this print was made. [BL, LA46-123]. Jones had arrived back in England from his European trip in early June 1846 to sort out the afffairs of his dead uncle.

The original negative for this original print is held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Royal Photographic Society Collection, reference: RPS025308.