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Astronomical and navigational instruments

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3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models

Astrolabes and quadrants

Celestial navigation

Charting instruments

Compasses

Course, speed and distance indicators

Electronic navigation

Exploring the Arctic

Globes

Globes and globe gores

Herschel family

Meteorological instruments

Optical equipment

Popular Astronomy

Sundials

Telescopes

Telescopes at the Royal Observatory Greenwich

Telescopes Online Gallery

The Herschels as experimenters

The Herschels as instrument makers

The many faces of the telescope

Charts and maps

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De Gomme collection

Des Barres collection

Duckworth collection

Duff collection

Ericsson collection

Globes

Globes and globe gores

Goodsall collection

Green Blackwall collection - charts

Henry Newton Stevens Atlantic Neptune collection

Hopton Hall collection

Lockyer collection

Loose maps and charts: general collection

Moriarty collection

Northey collection

Penrose collection

Pirelli collection

Portolans and loose charts on vellum

Printed atlases

STC collection

Stokes collection

Westlake collection

Coins and medals

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Coins

Commemorative medals

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Naval General Service Medal 1793-1840

Orders and medals

Recent acquisitions

The Naval Gold Medal

Decorative art

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Ceramics

Furniture

Glass

Hope Service

Jewellery

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Objet d'art

Plate

Sailors' craftwork

Fine art

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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

Ship models

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Cargo vessels

Dockyards, buildings, and topography

Exploration and research vessels

Fishing and hunting vessels

Lifeboats and lifesaving vessels

Passenger vessels

Powered warships

Racing and pleasure craft

Royal yachts and ceremonial craft

Sailing warships

Service vessels

Small craft

Ship Plans

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Admiralty Collection

Merchant Collection

Sailing Navy

Type

'Admiral Keppel For Ever' Plate

A. Telescope

Airy's Water Telescope

A month duration mahogany astronomical longcase regulator by George Graham, London, circa 1725, No. 621, known as 'Graham No.1'

An unfinished prospect looking east from the Royal Observatory, with two large buildings in the distance

An unfinished prospect looking east from the Royal Observatory, with two large buildings in the distance,

An unfinished prospect of Greenwich looking north east from the Royal Observatory

An unfinished prospect of Greenwich looking north east from the Royal Observatory,

An unfinished prospect of Greenwich looking north from the Royal Observatory

armament, ethnographic: arrow

armament, ethnographic: javelin

Armillary sphere

Arrow

Astronomical Regulator

Astronomical regulator

Astronomical regulator; Winding key

Astronomical regulator glass jar

Astronomical regulator hood

Astronomical regulator hood key

Astronomical regulator jar cap

Astronomical regulator keys

Astronomical regulator movement

Astronomical regulator pendulum

Astronomical regulator pulley

Astronomical regulator suspension

Astronomical regulator trunk

Astronomical regulator trunk key

Astronomical regulator weight

astronomical t&e: sphere, armillary

astronomical t&e: telescope, water

astronomical t&e: telescope component: stand, astrographic refractor

Backstaff

Baseboard

Block model

boat frame mould

Bowl

Box

Builder's, Full hull model

Bust

bust fragment

Butterfield dial

Cabinet

Cast

cast: cameo cast

cast: medallion cast

Chart

Cloak

Clock movement and dial

clothing, outerwear: uniform: cloak

clothing, outerwear: uniform: uniform, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath's

commemorative artifact: glass, wine

commemorative artifact: napkin

commemorative artifact: tablecloth

Counter

counter

Crutch

Design, Block model

Design, Half block model

documentary artifact: globe, celestial

documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, hand

documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, star

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, hand

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, bridges

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, flight

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, forecastle

documentary artifact: ship plan: lines

documentary artifact: ship plan: lines & profile

documentary artifact: ship plan: model, admiralty

documentary artifact: ship plan: section, aft

documentary artifact: ship plan: section, forward

drafting t&e: rule, parallel

Drawing

drawing

Engraving

Engravings

Figurine

Folder

food service t&e: plate

Fragment

Fragment from base

Fragments from the forecastle deck

Frame model

Freedom box

Full hull model

full hull model

Full hull model; Block model

Full hull model; Navy board model; Plank-on-frame

Full hull model; Navy board model; Plank-on-frame; Stand

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame(?)

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame(?); Fragments from the forecastle deck

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Baseboard

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Crutch

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Frame model; Rigged model

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; launching flagpole

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Screws

Full hull model; Rigged model

Full hull modelBlock model

Full hull shipbuilder’s exhibition model

Greeting card

Half block model

Hanger

Hood

Hood key

household accessory: box

Inclining dial

Jug

launching flagpole

Longcase Regulator

MAP-SHEET

Mariner's quadrant

medal

Medal

Medal cast

Medallion cast

Mercury

Miniature

Miniature globe

Miniature globe stand

Miniature globe stand part

Movement

Napkin

Navigational globe

Navy Board, Full hull model

Navy board model

optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)

Order

order, British: Bath, Companion CB, Military: Most Honourable Order of the, 3rd Class

order, British: Bath, Knight Commander, KCB, Military: Most Honourable Order of the, 2nd class

order, British: Bath, Knight Grand Cross, KCB, Military: Most Honourable Order of the, 1st class

order, British: Bath, Knight Grand Cross GCB, Military: Most Honourable Order of the, 1st class

original art: engraving ?

original art: plaque, portrait

original art: sculpture: bust

Painting

Parallel rule

Pedestal

Pendulum

Perpetual calendar

personal symbol: coat of arms, Colchester

personal symbol: coat of arms, Yarmouth

Photographic print

Plan Chest

Plank-on-frame

Plank-on-frame(?)

Plaque

Plate

Pocket Chronometer

Pocket compass

Pocket telescope

Polygonal telescope

Portrait of Thomas Weston

Portrait plaque

presentation artifact: box, freedom

Printing plate

Pulley

Regulator

Rigged model

Seal

sheet film egative

Ship's badge

Short interval timer

Staff

Stand

Starfield Shoreline

surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, surveying

surveying & navigational t&e: quadrant (Elton's)

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: quadrant, mural

Surveying compass

Tablecloth

Table globe

Teapot

Technical drawing

technical drawing

Telescope

Telescope mount

timekeeping t&e: calendar, perpetual

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

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

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial

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

Trunk

Trunk key

Universal equinoctial ring dial

Vane

watch

Watch

water transport: cargo vessel: bulk carrier, vegetable oils

water transport: cargo vessel: East Indiaman (Dutch)

water transport: fighting vessel

water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate

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

water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 3 gun boat (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate

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

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

water transport: fighting vessel: 20-24 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 44 gun ship (HMS)

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

water transport: fighting vessel: 64 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: 90 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship

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

water transport: fighting vessel: coast defence ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: seaplane carrier (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: submarine (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: warship (Netherlands)

water transport: hunting vessel: whaler

water transport: hunting vessel: whaler (Netherlands)

water transport: model, design: block model

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

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

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

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

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

water transport: model, vessel: skeleton model(decked: equipped)

water transport: passenger vessel

water transport: recreation vessel: yacht, royal (HMY)

water transport: sailing vessel: ship, 3 masted

water transport: service vessel: lightship

water transport: steam vessel: paddle-wheel

water transport: steam vessel: turbine

water transport: unknown function: ship (Netherlands)

water transport: yacht (Netherlands)

water transport: yawl

water transport accessory: badge, ship's

Weight

Winding key

Wine glass

Working, Full hull model

Materials

agate

aluminium

aquatint

black ink

bloodstone

blue colour wash

blued-steel

blue ink

blue ink, with blue, mauve, brown and green colour wash

blue wash

board

bone

brass

brass, silver, paper, glass

bronze

bronze-gilt

brown wash

card

cast

cast iron

cast silver

cellulose nitrate

chalk, black

cloth

coating: varnish

copper

copper alloy

copper plate engraved

cotton

damask

diazo print

Drafting cloth

earthenware

enamel

engraved

engraving

engraving & etching

engraving & etching, coloured

engraving, crayon manner

engraving, steel

engraving, stipple

engraving, wood

etching

etching, brown

etching, coloured

etching and engraving

frame

fruitwood

gilt

gilt-brass

gilt brass

gilt metal

glass

gold

gold thread

gouache

graphite

Graphite

graphite & wash, grey

green ink

grey colour wash

grey wash

grisaille on panel

gum arabic

hand-coloured

hemp

horn

human hair

Ilfochrome classic CLM1K

ink

ink corrections

inorganic: ceramic: vitreous paste

inorganic: glass

inorganic: printing ink

iron

ivory

lead

leather

linen

linen-backed paper

linen backed paper

mahogany

manuscript

manuscript ink

marble

mauve wash

mercury

metal

metal: brass

metal: bronze

metal: copper-alloy, gilt

metal: pewter

metal: silver

metal: silver gilt, enamelled

metal: steel

metal: tin

metal: wire, gold

metal: wire, silver

metal thread

mezzotint

mezzotint & etching

mezzotint, tinted

mica

oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

oil on panel

oil paint

orange wash

organic: cotton

organic: feather

organic: paper

organic: papier mache

organic: reed

organic: wood: maple, ?

ozatrace

paint

painted

paper

papier mache

pearwood

pencil

Pencil and wash on paper

plaster

plastic

porcelain

printed

printed paper

print of tracing

rayskin

red brass

red ink

sepia ink

silk

silk thread

silver

silver, enamelled

silver-gilt, enamel

silver-gilt, enamelled

silver plate

simulated tortoise-shell

stain

steel

synthetic: wax

tin-glazed

Tisbury stone

tracing paper

varnish

vellum

velvet

wash, brown

Wash-off print

watercolour

watercolour (probably)

watercolour and bodycolour

wood

wood,brass,cord,monochrome

wood: pine

wool

yellow brass

yellow colour wash

yellow wash

Display Location

Display - QH

Display - ROG

Display - Traders Gallery

Display - Tudor and Stuart Seafarers Gallery

Display - Voyagers

Not on display

Creator

after Sir Joshua Reynolds

Ailsa Shipbuilding Co Ltd

Airy, George Biddell

Allom, T.

Anonymous

Anthonisz, Aert

Ashton & Hadwen

Bakewell, Thomas

Bardwell, Thomas

Bartolozzi, Francesco

Basire, Isaac

Bause, Jo Frid

Bernard, J.

Berry, W J

Boons, T. or F.

Bowles, Carington

Bowles, John

Brierly, Oswald Walters

British School

British School, 18th century

British School, 19th century

Brown

Bunney & Gold

Caldwall, James

Caldwall, John

Campbell, Colen

Cary & Co.

Cerachi

Chapman, John

Charles Connell and Company

Clay, Charles

Cleveley, John

Cole, Thomas

Collyer, Joseph

Conde, John

Cook, Henry R.

Cook, Thomas

Coombe, W.

Coombes

Cooper, Edward

Cornelis van Noorde, Cornelis van

Culpeper, Edmund

D'Almaine & Co

Dahl, Michael

Dance, Nathaniel

Darton, William, & Son

Dassier, Jean

Derby

Derges, Susan

Desnos, Louis Charles

Dickinson & Watson

Dickinson, William

Dobson, William

Doughty, William

Dyck, Anthony van

Earnshaw, Thomas

Elder, James Basire the

Elliott, George E.

Enden, Marten van den

Faber, Johan

Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd

Fielding & Walker

Fielding, John

Fisher, Edward

Garrard & Co. Ltd

Garrard, R G

Gass, P.W.

George, Etienne François

Gerhard

Gibson, Thomas

Gold, Joyce

Gould, A. H.

Graham, George

Graves, H

Greatbatch, William

Grieve, John

Grubb, Howard

Hall, J.

Harding & Lepard

Harding, E.

Harland & Wolff Ltd

Harris, Douglas D.

Heins, after John Theodore

Hinton, John

HM Admiralty

HM Dockyard, Portsmouth

Hogarth, William

Hone, Nathaniel

Hudson, Thomas

Hulsbergh, Hendrik

Hunter, John

I.H.

Innocent, John

J. & W. Robins

J.G. Jaeger

Jackson, John

Jacobus Houbraken, Jacobus

Jelgersma, T.

John Bowles & Son

John Tallis & Co

John Watts, John

Jordan, Timothy

Keulen, Gerard Van

Knapton, George

Kneller, Godfrey

Lens, Bernard

Le Roy

LeRoy, Pierre

Lewis

Lewis, N.

Leyden, Jan van

Lyng, T.

Macardell, James

Marine Photo Service

Maskelyne, Margaret

Mead, J.

Melville, Henry

Mercuard

Minderhout, Hendrik van

Ministry of Defence

Moor, Karel de

Mornas, Buy de

Nicholls, Joseph

Nicholls, Sutton

Nicholls, Thomas

Noble & Company

Owen, William

Parker, Henry, & Bakewell

Penny, Edward

Peter, Basil Grenville

Petrus Plancius, Petrus

Pichler, Giovanni

Prior, Thomas Abel

Ransomes & Sims

Ranson, Thomas Frazer

Reynolds, Joshua

Reynolds, Samuel William

Rhodes, David

Ridley, William

Robert Laurie & James Whittle

Robert Sayer & John Bennett

Roettier, J.C.

Romney, George

Rundell, Bridge & Rundell

Russell, John

Ryall, Henry Thomas

Rysbrack, John Michael

Salm, Adriaen van

Samuel Shelley, Samuel

Sayer, Robert

School, Netherlandish

Scott, James

Scriven, Edward

Serres, Dominic

Seutter, Matthaeus

Sewell, John

Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer

Sherlock, J W

Sherlock, William P.

Sisson, Jonathan

Smyth, Joseph

Stewart, R

Stewart, Robert

Storck, Abraham

Storck, style of Abraham

Tassie

Tassie, after James

Tassie, James

Tessavolo

the Younger, after Willem van de Velde,

Thomas Cadell & William Davies

Tillemans, Pieter

T or F Boon

Troughton & Simms

unidentified

United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)

Unknown

Valk, Gerard

Valk, Leonard

Valk, Leonhard

Vanderbank, John

van Salm, Roelof

Velde, Willem van de, the Younger

Vendramini, Giovanni

Vertue, George

Vlieger, Simon de

Voerst, Robert van

Wallis, H

Watson, Thomas

Wentworth, F

West

William S Orr & Co

Wilson, Benjamin

Wright, William

Yudin, S.

Places

Admiralty House

Amsterdam

Augsburg

Belfast

Bristol

Chatham Dockyard

Chatham Dockyard, Chatham, Medway, England, United Kingdom

City of Bristol

City of London

Denmark

Deptford Dockyard

Dublin

England

France

Germany

Glasgow

Govan

Guyana

Haulbowline Island

Ireland

Lambeth

Leeds

London

Maidenhead

Navy Office

Netherlands

Newcastle upon Tyne

Padua, Italy

Panama Canal

Paris

Pinner, Middlesex, UK

Portsmouth Dockyard

Russia

Switzerland

Troon

Unknown

Vienna

Events

American War of Independence: Battle of the Saints, 1782

Anglo-French War: Battle of Ushant, 1778

Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish Armada, 1588

Carte du Ciel & the Astrographic Catalogue project, 1887-1958

Court martial of Admiral Keppel, 1779

Death of Edward Teach, 1718

Death of Peter I, 1725

Defeat of the pirates of Salee, 1739

Eighty Years' War: Battle of the Downs, 1639

Landing of the Young Pretender in Scotland, 1745

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801

Seven Years' War: Battle off Minorca, 1756

Seven Years' War: Capture of Havana, 1762

Vessels

90 1937

91 1937

92 1937

Albacore (1942)

Albatross (1928)

Ambush (1945)

Amelia (1634)

Bedford (1775)

Benalder (1949)

Cruiser (1852)

Defence

De Geertrit Pieternelle (1717)

De Maas (1713)

Endurance (1956)

Fern 162 LK 1910

Forth (1938)

Fubbs 1682

Grafton (1725)

Gramsbergen (1956)

Gripsholm (1925)

Hotspur (1870)

Kent (1724)

La Concorde (1711)

Lion 1725

Luxborough Galley fl.1727

Maggie Helen 160LK 1904

Magnanime (1780)

Marlborough (1732)

Mooring Lighter No. 7 (1903)

Northumberland (not built)

Phoebe (1939)

Prince Royal (1610)

Renown (1916)

Rippon 1725

Royal George 1827 [HMS]

Royal William (1719)

Ruby 1725

Sandwich (1715)

Schielan (1717)

St Jean D'Acre (1853)

Surrey (not built)

Sylvia (1944)

Triumph (1764)

Victory (1737)

Zeven Provincien 1723

Exhibition

Art for the Nation

Caird Collection

Collecting for the 21st Century

Enslavement and Resistance

Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames

Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude

The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire

Time and Longitude

Trade and Commerce

Turmoil and Tranquillity

Unseen: The Lives of Looking by Dryden Goodwin

Voyagers

People

Affleck, Edmund

Affleck, Philip

Apian, Peter

Attwell

Baillie, Thomas

Baldwin, Engineer George William

Besson, Elizabeth

Blaeu, Joan

Bonny, Anne

Bourbon, Louis Alexandre de

Bourbon, Louis Jean Marie de

Bradley, Reverend James

Brahe, Tycho

Byng, George

Byng, The Honourable John

Carew, Benjamin Hallowell

Charles Connell and Company

Clay, Charles

Clive, Robert

Cockatoo Dockyard

Colonial Sugar Refinery Co.

Corporation of Colchester

d'Anville, Duc

Ekins, Charles

Evans, Alfred Englefield

Eyre, George

Flamsteed, Reverend John

French Navy

Gould, A. H.

Graves, Thomas

Hadley, John

Halley, Edmond

Hamilton, F. J.

Hamilton, F. S.

Hanson

Harrison, John

Hattem, John van

Hood, Samuel

Howe, Richard

Jervis, John

Jones, Inigo

Keppel, Augustus

Keppel, Henry

King William III

Lee, Fitzroy Henry

Lee family

Lee Mainwaring family

Maskelyne, Nevil

McCleverty, James Johnstone

Mellersh, Arthur

Montcalm-Gozon, Louis-Joseph de

Moore, Graham

Nelson, Catherine

Nelson, Edmund

Nelson, Horatio

Netherlands: Navy

Newton, John

Norris, David Thomas

Nutt, Justinian

Ogle, Charles

Parker, Hyde

Parker, R.

Peter, Gill

Petrus Plancius, Petrus

Pugh, R. W. B.

Queen Mary II

Queen Victoria

Read, Mary

Rodney, George Brydges

Rooke, George

Royal Greenwich Observatory

Royal Navy

Samuel Shelley, Samuel

Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd

Stephens, Philip

Suckling, Maurice

Teach, Captain Edward

Tindal, Reverand Nicolas

Tsarina Catherine II of Russia

Tsar Peter I of Russia

Tschitchagoff, Vasili Yakovlevich

Vitringa, Wigerus

Wit, Frederick De

Yelverton, Hastings R.

Century

16th

17th

18th

19th

20th

21st

unknown

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'Grafton' (1725) (Technical drawing)

Grafton (1725); Kent (1724) (Drawing)

'Kent' (1724); 'Grafton' (1725) (Technical drawing)

Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves (1725-1802) (Miniature)

Augustus Viscount Keppel 1725-1786 (Print)

Medal commemorating Admiral Augustus Keppel (1725-1786); obverse

Medal commemorating Admiral Augustus Keppel (1725-1786) (Medal)

Admiral Vasili Yakovlevich Chichagov [Tchitchagoff] (1725-1809) (Pedestal)

Eddystone light house being 90 foot high 1725 (Print)

Admiral Vasili Yakovlevich Chichagov [Tchitchagoff] (1725-1809) (Plaque)

Medal commemorating the death of Czar Peter I, 1725; reverse

Medal commemorating the death of Czar Peter I, 1725 (Medal)

Ruby (1725); Fourth rate; 50 guns (Full hull model; Block model)

Adm Augustus Keppel; Viscount Keppel, 1725-86 (Print)

Warship (1725); Fourth rate; 50 guns (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame)

Defence (1725); Warship; Third rate; 70 guns (Full hull model; Block model)

Fubbs (1725); Royal/ceremonial vessel; Yacht (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame(?))

Augustus, Viscount Keppel, 1725-1786 (Print)

Lion (1725); Warship; Fourth rate; 50 guns (Full hull model; Block model)

Warship (1725); Third rate; 70 guns (Full hull model; Navy board model; Plank-on-frame)

Thomas Graves, 1st Baron, 1725-1802 (before letters) (Print)

Warship (1725); First rate; 100 guns (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame)

Warship(1725); Fourth rate; 50 guns- Port Broadside

Warship (1725); Fourth rate; 50 guns (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame)

Captain Philip Affleck, after 1725-1799 (Painting)

Lord Thomas Graves (1725-1802) (proof before letters) (Print)

Medal commemorating the Battle of Ushant 1778 and Admiral Augustus Keppel (1725-1786) (Medal)

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