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A Sea of Symbols
Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)
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Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton
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Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-92) (Death mask)
John Knowsley (Miniature)
Reverend Hugh [Herbert Edward] Nelson-Ward, 1863-1952 (Miniature)
A Royal Navy captain of about 1787-95, (formerly called Ferdinand IV, King of the Two Sicilies) (Miniature)
'Admiral Duncan's Victory' (Battle of Camperdown) (Pendant)
Sir Edmund Affleck, 1725 - 88, Rear-Admiral of the Red (Miniature)
William Hancock Kelly, 1751 - 1811, Vice-Admiral of the Blue (Miniature)
Mrs Henry Leete (Miniature)
Captain John Richards La Penotiere (Silhouette)
Captain William Allen (William Allin), d.1696 (Miniature)
Unidentified lady, possibly of the Faulknor family (Miniature)
Robert Devereux, 1591-1646, 3rd Earl of Essex (Miniature)
'Britannia rules the waves' [Britannia] (Pendant)
Charles Chamberlayne, c.1750 - 1810, Admiral of the Blue (Miniature)
William van de Velde the Younger, 1633 - 1707 (Miniature)
Lieutenant Robert Dixon, 1784 - 1837 (Miniature)
Rear-Admiral William Luckraft, 1781/2 - 1865 (Miniature)
Symbolic female figure, in memory of Captain Henry Bryne, d. 1780 (Pendant)
An unidentified Royal Naval lieutenant (Miniature)
Unidentified man (Miniature)
Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton, c. 1761 - 1815, as 'The Spinstress' (Miniature)
Ferdinand IV, 1751-1825, King of Naples and Sicily (Miniature)
A young man called Midshipman John Pollard, 1787-1868 (Miniature)
'Boatswain William Willmett and Mrs Willmett' (Miniature)
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