The Ming Treasure Fleet Arriving at the Port of Mogadishu on the Swahili Coast

Illustration - Single

2015

Charlie Swerdlow
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Student: Charlie Swerdlow Program: BFA, Illustration School: Savannah College of Art and Design

This image exemplifies History Depicted, an ever-growing body of fine art and illustration envisioning sites and scenes from ancient through contemporary history. In this painting, the largest wooden vessels of all time have come from fifteenth-century Ming China, on a trade and propaganda trip to the African coast. For more about this and other historic scenes, visit HistoryDepicted.com. Artist and historian, Charlie Swerdlow is available as an illustrator, graphic designer, and fine art painter.