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Anderson, William
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Brierly, Oswald Walters
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Isabey, Eugène Louis Gabriel
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Exploration: Cook's Third Voyage, 1776
First Opium War, 1840-1842
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Second Anglo-Dutch War: Attack on the Medway, 1667
Second Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Lowestoft, 1665
Second Anglo-Dutch War; 1665-1667
Second Anglo–Dutch War: Four Days Fight, 1666
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Australian Landscape Touring Exhibition
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Ships Trading in the East (Painting)
Mussel Fishing (Painting)
Woodes Rogers and his Family (Painting)
Captain Lord George Graham, 1715-47, in his Cabin (Painting)
Ships Passing a Windmill (Painting)
Charles Howard, 1536-1624, 1st Earl of Nottingham (Painting)
'View of part of Owharre [Fare] Harbour, Island of Huahine' (Painting)
The Death of Captain James Cook, 14 February 1779 (Painting)
'View of Owharee [Fare] Harbour, Island of Huaheine [Huahine]' (Painting)
Gustavus Hamilton, 1710-46, 2nd Viscount Boyne, and Friends in a Ship's Cabin (Painting)
Greenland Fishery: English Whalers in the Ice (Painting)
An English Ship in Action with Barbary Corsairs, circa 1680 (Painting)
A Dutch settlement in India viewed from the land (Painting)
Ships and a Galley Wrecked on a Rocky Coast (Painting)
The Wreck of the 'Amsterdam' (Painting)
A Dutch Ship and a Kaag in a Fresh Breeze (Painting)
An Algerine Ship off a Barbary Port (Painting)
Jonah and the Whale (Painting)
Sunlight on a Stormy Sea (Painting)
Dutch Ferry Boats in a Fresh Breeze (Painting)
Fishing Boats in a Choppy Sea (Painting)
The Beach at Scheveningen (Painting)
A Dismasted Ship in a Rough Sea (Painting)
Allegory: the Ship of State (Painting)
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