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Duquesne French Navy Heavy Cruiser Blueprint Wall Art
Open production · Made after your order
A hand-plotted technical blueprint, drawn stroke by stroke in real ink.
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A technical plan of the Duquesne, drawn in pen, line by line, on 250 g/m² paper, 11 x 17 in (27.9 x 43.2 cm). A physical nib presses into the paper and lays down real ink, stroke after stroke.
The Duquesne exists as a photo and a spec sheet, everywhere — a drawing anyone can call up on a screen. What doesn't exist everywhere is a copy that can say who traced it, where, and under what serial number.
The Duquesne is a heavy cruiser built for the French Navy at the Arsenal de Brest and Arsenal de Lorient — the lead ship of her class, built from 1924 to 1928 and in service from 25 January 1929 to 2 July 1955 (the Duquesne class overall serving into 1962). Four-shaft Rateau-Bretagne geared steam turbines fed by 8 Guyot du Temple boilers produced 118,358 shp, giving a designed speed of 34 knots (63 km/h) and a range of 5,000 nautical miles at 15 knots. She carried eight 203 mm guns in four twin turrets as main armament, backed by eight 75 mm and eight 37 mm guns, plus six 550 mm torpedo tubes in triple mounts, with a crew of 605. Displacement ranged from 10,160 t standard to 12,435 t full load, on a hull 191 m (626.7 ft) long overall, 19 m (62.3 ft) at the beam, drawing 6.32 m (20.7 ft).
At a Glance
- ◆Built 1924–1928, served 1929–1962
- ◆8× 203mm main guns
- ◆Speed 34 knots (63 km/h)
- ◆Range 5,000 nmi at 15 knots
- ◆Crew of 605 sailors
- ◆Built by Arsenal de Brest, France
Each piece is physically plotted by the studio's precision robot in Québec City, using Stabilo® Fineliners and Sakura® Gelly Roll inks on 250 gsm (120 lb) stock — stroke by stroke, never printed. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. The result is a tactile, hand-plotted finish — never printed.
Specifications
> FORMAT: Tabloid Standard [11" x 17"]
> INK SYSTEM: Stabilo® Fineliner / Sakura® Gelly Roll
> SUBSTRATE: 250gsm High-Density Stock [120lb]
> EXECUTION: Precision Vector Plotting
> PRODUCTION: Open · plotted after you order
> ORIGIN: Québec City, Canada
What the robot does. What a person decides.
The robot
- ◆Runs the file
- ◆Draws the hull, the turrets, the funnels
- ◆Lays down ink, line by line
- ◆Repeats without tiring
A person
- ◆Chooses the ship and the view
- ◆Designs which lines survive from thousands
- ◆Sets pen pressure, speed, and height
- ◆Watches the plot from start to finish
- ◆Signs, numbers, and packs the piece
Drawn by a robot. Designed by a person.
Included
Production timelapse included — every order · no extra cost
Watch your piece being plotted, line by line, by the studio's robot. A personal timelapse of your production is sent with every order — to share, or to keep as a record of how your piece came to be.
Hidden signature
Real footage — an early production piece, shown under blacklight.
A signature only UV light reveals
On the back of every piece, in the same pass as the drawing, we plot a signature invisible under normal light — codeink.art, the piece's name and serial number, the year, and Québec. Shine a blacklight on it and it glows.
“Duquesne served for over three decades without ever firing a shot in anger during a world war — a rare kind of longevity for a warship of her era. Reducing that patient career to a few thousand strokes of ink felt right.”
Open production, no duplicates
This piece is plotted after you order it — the pen wears down over the hours it takes to draw, so ink density varies slightly and no two lines close exactly the same way. Nothing is corrected or hidden.
There's no cap on how many are made, but each one is drawn individually, signed, and numbered — never a batch, never printed.
A real process, not a printer
Each piece is physically plotted, pen on paper, in Québec City — watch the machine work.
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Real defects — shipping damage, wrong colour, missing lines — are replaced free of charge.
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Numbered and signed
A unique serial number and the date are plotted on the back in UV ink — invisible to the naked eye, laid down in the same pass as the drawing.
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