A copperplate engraving from the book titled, 'Plan de plusieurs b̢timens de mer avec leurs proportions dedi̩ �� Son Altesse Serenissime Monseigneur Louis Auguste de Bourbon' (Marseille: c. 1720) by the French Captain Henri Sbonski de Passebon. The book was a collection of naval architecture prints. This print is of a ca��que, a single-masted sailing vessel used on the Levantine with a sprit mainsail, a square topsail, and two or more other sails, departing from a Turkish dock. The buildings in the city in the left background have crescent moon finials at the top of their towers, which was a symbol used by the Ottoman Empire. The men on the dock and in the ca��que wear turbans and garments of the Middle East. The ca��que flies the crescent moon flag of the Ottoman Empire.
There is a watermark of a sun with a face, visible on the verso of the center left side of the print.
