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4. Astronomy and print

A Sea of Symbols

Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)

Caricatures

Foreign Shores

Green Blackwall collection

Herschel family

Lieutenant Gabriel Bray (1750–1823)

Maritime Art Greenwich

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Miniatures

Nature and National Waters

Nicholas Pocock

Oil paintings

Opium Wars

Patronage, Battles and the Exotic

Popular Astronomy

Prints, drawings and watercolours

Recent acquisitions

Sketchbooks and albums

Telescopes Online Gallery

The Herschels as collectors

The Opium Wars

The Rise of the Seascape

Van de Velde drawings

Historic Photographs

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'Unknown 64' Collection

Admiralty 10 Collection

Admiralty AD Negative Collection

Bedford Lemere photographs

Francis Frith & Co

Gibson's of Scilly

Henley Collection

H Oliver Hill Collection

Inglefield Negative Collection

Klein Collection

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

North East and East

Online only

Recent acquisitions

Robbins Collection

Smiths, Suitall Ltd Collection

South East and East Anglia

South West

Ship Plans

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Admiralty Collection

Merchant Collection

Sailing Navy

Victorian Navy

Warrior

Type

Astrolabe

Astronomical regulator

astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Maghribi)

Block model

Bottle

Box

candlestick, launching

Cap

cast: medal cast: commemorative medal

Chart

chronometer, marine

clothing, headwear: uniform: cap

clothing, outerwear: uniform: coat & badge, Doggett's

Counter

Daguerreotype

DaguerreotypeDrawing

Design, Block model

Design, Half block model

Disc

documentary artifact: model, mural arc

documentary artifact: model, sextant

documentary artifact: model, transit instrument

documentary artifact: photonegative, glass

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck

documentary artifact: ship plan: lines

documentary artifact: ship plan: lines & profile

documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer

Doggett's coat

Doggett's coat and badge

Drawing

Engraving

Folder

Full hull model

Full hull model; Block model

Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set

Full hull model Block model

Full hull modelBlock model

Glass bottle

Glass plate negative

Half block model

Launching candlestick

Lines

MAP-SHEET

Marine chronometer

Medal

Medal cast

Model, sextant

Model of a mural arc

Model of a sextant

Model of a transit instrument

Mural arc model

Ocean (1805)

Painting

personal gear?: disc

personal symbol: anchor, fouled

personal symbol: cypher, royal

Pop-up model and plan

presentation artifact: candlestick, launching

Presentation Sword

regulator, longcase

Rigged model

Ring dial

Roll film negative

Sails set

Scale: 1:12. A full hull model of the double-ended whaleboat S.Jose, made entirely in wood, built plank on frame and painted in realistic colours. The vessel is depicted fully fore and aft rigged on its single mast. The hull is painted mostly white with the top strake painted deep blue and the gunwales painted red. A narrow strake is also red as is the inboard hull. It is equipped with sails, short bowsprit, mast and spars, rudder and tiller and the various tools needed to hunt whales.

Ship's badge

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant (Flamsteed's 7ft)

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, mural arc (Flamsteed's 7ft)

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, transit instrument

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, transit instrument (Halley's 5ft)

Technical drawing

Technical drawing)

Telescope

timekeeping t&e: clock, longcase

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, ring

water transport: exploration/research vessel: anti-magnetic

water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 4th rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 4th rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 50 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 50 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 60 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 70 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 70 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 98 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 120 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: corvette (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 12 gun

water transport: hunting vessel: whaler

water transport: model, design: block model

water transport: model, design: block model(half)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails set)

water transport: model, instructional: full hull model(decked)

water transport: passenger vessel: liner

water transport: sailing vessel: brigantine

water transport: unknown function: ship (Netherlands)

water transport accessory: badge, ship's

water transport component: interior, vessel: saloon, 1st class

water transport component: interior, vessel: saloon, drawing 1st class

water transport component: interior, vessel: saloon, smoking 1st class

Materials

black ink

black ink pen

brass

bronze

carved

cast

copper

copper alloy

cotton

crayon, black & white

damascened steel

engraving

engraving, stipple

engraving, wood

etching

etching, coloured

Gelatine dry plate

gilt

glass

gold

gold wire

graphite

green ink

grey colourwash

ink

ivory

laid paper

laminated

lead

leather

line engraving on paper

metal

metal: copper

mezzotint

oak

oil on canvas

oil on panel

paint

paper

pencil

plaster

Polyester negative

red ink

silver

string

tincture of opiated camphor

varnish

Vellum

wash, brown

wash, brown and grey

wood

Display Location

Display - QH

Display - Traders Gallery

Not on display

Creator

Abbott, Lemuel Francis

Ahlborn, Lea

al-Battuti, Muhammad ibn Ahmad

Allen, H. R.

Asperne, J

Bache, John

Bakewell, Thomas

Baston, J

Baston, Thomas

Bedford Lemere & Co

Bellevois, Jacob Adriaensz

Blood, T.

Bose, Claude Du

Bowles, Carington

Bowles, John

Bowles, Thomas

Brierly, Oswald Walters

Bunney & Gold

Bunney, J W

Buysen, A van

Chapman, Frederick Henrik Af, Ad

Cole, B.

Cole, John

Cooke, Edward William

Cuvillan, Silbestre

Dahl, Michael

De Puis

Duvivier, J.

Faber, Johan

Fisher, Edward

Frumerie, C. M.

Gibson, after Thomas

Gibson, Thomas

Gold, Joyce

Graham, George

Greenhill, John

Hardcastle, S. E.

Harris, I

Harris, John

Hogarth, William

Holt, Johannes

Holtzhey, Johann Georg

Hooke, Robert

Jones, John

Jordan, Timothy

Kirkall, Elisha

Knapton, George

Kneller, Godfrey

Laurie, Richard Holmes

Macardell, James

Manchezo, Juan Sanchez

Mayo, William

Metallwarenfabrik

Monamy, Peter

Reynolds, Joshua

Reynolds, Samuel William

Ridley, William

Rippers, Enoch van

Roussel, H.

Sailmaker, Isaac

Salm, Adriaen van

Sartor, J.

Senex, John

Sharp

Sharp, William

Smith, John

Spooner, Charles

Sully, Henry

Teed, Richard

the Elder, Johan Faber,

Thornhill, James

Unknown

Uwins, Thomas

Velde, Willem van de, the Younger

Vertue, George

Vlieger, Simon de

Weld, Lady

Wentworth, F

Wettern, Desmond Robert French

Wilson, Benjamin

Zoffany, Johann

Places

Bonifacio

Dartmouth, Devon

Deptford Dockyard

France

Germany

Havana

Italy

London

Morocco

Murcia

Navy Office

Netherlands

Portsmouth Dockyard

Sweden

Unknown

Versailles

Woolwich Dockyard

Events

American War of Independence: Battle of Doggerbank, 1781

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880

Defence of Guadeloupe, 1721

East India Co established at Bombay, 1662

French Revolutionary Wars: Blockade of Malta, 1800

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

Sinking of the Groenebosch, 1721

War of the Quadruple Alliance: Battle of Cape Passaro, 1718

Vessels

Ajax (1809)

Aquitania (1914)

Argyle (1722)

Artois (1780)

Barfleur (1697)

Berwick (1723)

Berwick (1775)

Blenheim (1709)

Bombay Castle (1782)

Brilliant (1779)

Britannia (1719)

Burford (1722)

Calliope (1884)

Chatham (1721)

Colchester (1721)

Cruiser (1852)

Defiance (1783)

Edinburgh (1721)

Euryalus (1803)

Falkland 1702

Feversham 1712 (HMS)

Foudroyant (1798)

Groenebosch fl.1721

Guillaume Tell (1795)

Gurland

Katherine (1721)

Leopard (1721)

Nelson (1814)

Northumberland (1721)

Ocean (1805)

Penelope (1798)

Powerful (1783)

Queen Charlotte (1790)

Ranger

Research (1939)

Royal Anne 1703 [British navy]

Royal Fortune

Royal George 1715 [British navy]

Royal George 1827 [HMS]

Royal George? 1715 [British navy]

Royal Sovereign 1701 [British navy]

Starling (1942)

St Jean D'Acre (1853)

Superb (captured 1710)

Swift (1721)

Victory (1737)

Exhibition

Art for the Nation

Caird Collection

Greenwich Hospital Collection

Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames

Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude

Time and Longitude

Traders: The East India Company and Asia

Turmoil and Tranquillity

Unseen: The Lives of Looking by Dryden Goodwin

People

Augustus, Prince William

Blackwood, George

Blackwood, Henry

Bonny, Anne

Bourbon, Louis Alexandre de

Bradley, Reverend James

Britannia

British Fleet

Byng, George

Chapman, Frederick Henrik Af, Ad

Chapman, Fredrik Henrik af

Churchill, John

Cole, Henry

Cornaro, Admfl

Crul, Wilhelm

Cunningham, Charles

Deane, Anthony

Edgcumbe, George

Flamsteed, Reverend John

Gibbons, Grinling

Gibson, Thomas

Greenwich Hospital Collection

Guding, Christopherfl

Halley, Edmond

Henslow, John

Hercules, Hercules

Herschel, Margaret Louisa

Herschel, Maria Sophia

Herschel, Matilda Rose

Holt, Robertfl

Howe, Richard

Hunt, Edward

James, William

John Brown & Company

Kerr, William

King Louis XV of France

Lloyd's Patriotic Fund

Mewes & Davis

Middagten, Christoffel

Miss M.E. Herschel

Naish, John

Nelson, Horatio

Norris, John

Norris, Mrs

Parker, Charles Christopher

Parker, Peter

Phillips, John

Read, Mary

Roberts, Bartholomew

Rogers, Woodes

Ross, John Lockhart

Royal Navy

Rule, William

Sheffield, John

South Sea Company

Stukeley, William

Thornhill, James

Triplow, Ellen Hannah

Vertue, George

William James Herschel

Williams, John

Worley, John

Century

17th

18th

19th

20th

unknown

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showing 178 objects results for '1721'

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'Katherine' (1721) (Technical drawing)

Swift (1721) (Technical drawing)

Leopard (1721) (Technical drawing)

Colchester (1721) (Technical drawing)

Chatham (1721) (Technical drawing)

Catherine (circa 1721) (Technical drawing)

'Katherine' (1721) (Technical drawing)

Argyle (1721) [alternative spelling: Argyll] (Technical drawing)

Counter commemorating the sinking of the 'Groenebosch', 1721; obverse

Counter commemorating the sinking of the 'Groenebosch', 1721 (Counter)

Catherine (1721) [alternative spelling: Katherine] (Technical drawing)

Medal commemorating the defence of Guadeloupe, 1721; obverse

Medal commemorating the defence of Guadeloupe, 1721 (Medal)

Mark Akenside, MD, born 1721- died 1770 (Drawing)

'Edinburgh' (1721) - starboard broadside

Edinburgh (1721),; Warship; Third rate; 70 guns (Full hull model; Block model)

Medal commemorating Admiral Frederick Henry Chapman (1721-1808); obverse

Medal commemorating Admiral Frederick Henry Chapman (1721-1808) (Medal)

Proram Obvertit et... Virgil Ships of 1721. 5

Virgil Ships of 1721. 5 (Print)

Vespere ab atro Consurgunt... Virgil Plate 16. Ships of 1721. 4

Ships of 1721. 4 (Print)

To the Honble Josiah Burchett... Plate 10. Ships of 1721. 3

Ships of 1721. 3 (Print)

His tenet Imperium Pelagi Britannia Magna. Plate 11. Ships of 1721 1

Ships of 1721 1 (Print)

Edgcumbe, George Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1721-1795) (before letters) (Print)

To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales. Plate 19. Ships of 1721. 2

Ships of 1721. 2 (Print)

Folding Model and Plan of the 22-gun sixth Rate Ship ‘Gurland’ 1721 (Pop-up model and plan)

The Female Pirates (From an Old Print) [Anne Bonny, 1698-1782, and Mary Read, c. 1695-1721] (Print)

To the Honble the Principal Officers and Commissioners of his Majties Navy.... Plate 13. Ships of 1721. 6

Ships of 1721. 6 (Print)

East India Compys Service, Chairman of the Court of Directors &c. nat Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire 1721

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