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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

Type

35 mm

35 mm; Roll film negative

Adjusting pin

Arctic shore dry compass

Arctic shore dry compass azimuth circle

Arctic shore dry compass bowl

Arctic shore dry compass box

Arctic shore dry compass box key

Arctic shore dry compass card

Astronomical regulator

astronomical t&e: telescope(refracting comet seeking)

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic signalman's

Azimuth circle fragment

Born digital

Born digital map

Born digital photograph of map

Boundaries of Coastal Sea Areas

Box

Box lid

Bracket

Brass bracket

Brochure

Builder's, Full hull model

Buoy flasher unit

Cabinet

Case

Caul

ceremonial artifact: flag, house

Chart

Clock

Clock component

Clock components

Clock part

Clock serial number 2012

Combined sword and pistol

Contact frame

Contact wheel

container: bag

Copper contact

Design, Half block model

Design, Plating model

Digital collection object

Digital collection object; Map; TIFF digital file

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, bridges

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, forecastle

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, platform

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, superstructure

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper

documentary artifact: ship plan: hold

documentary artifact: tin, record ?

Drawing

Drill bit

Drill bit key

Driving weight

engine, petrol

Ephemera

Experiment of Leith

Explanation of Signs and Abbreviations

Eyepiece

Folder

Fork

Full-hull model

Full hull model

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

furniture accessory: firedog(pair)

Glass plate negative

Half block model

Half block model; Plating model

Historic Photographic Negative

Hood

Hood key

House flag

Impression

Invitation

invitation, launch

Jewelled contacts

Key

Kite

Lfesaving award

lighting device: taperstick

Liquid compass

Manometer

Manometer and Thermometer

Map

Medal

medal, American: lifesaving award: Presidential Medal

Miniature

Movement, dial and hands

Naval telescope

Night telescope

Octant

Octant box

Oil Painting

original art: drawing

Oversize

Painting

Pair of firedogs

pamphlet

Paper weight

Part of spare bracket

Pendulum

Perpetual calender model

Photograph

Photographic print

Pivot

Pivot case base

Pivot case lid

Pivots and cup

Plan Chest

Plank-on-frame

Plating model

Platter

Pulley

Quintant

Rare book

Record tin

relic, human: caul

Rigged model

Roller with jewelled pivots

Roll film negative

Sails set

Seal

Sextant

Ship Plan

Sight tube

Spare bracket

Starfield Shoreline

Steering compass

Steering compass stand

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry(Arctic shore)

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, landing: compass, liquid

surveying & navigational t&e: octant

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant

Suspension

Taperstick

Technical drawing

Telescope

Terminal block

The decagonal barrel of this non-achromatic telescope is made of mahogany and is tapered. It has a single brass draw tube and brass fittings, including a sliding objective lens cover, of which the slide is missing. The eyepiece is also missing.Night telescope

TIFF digital file

Timetable

Tripod part

Trunk

Trunk key

visual communication t&e: code, signal

water transport: cargo vessel: smuggler

water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: aircraft carrier (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: battlecruiser

water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, light (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: torpedo boat (HMS)

water transport: fishing vessel: trawler

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

water transport: model, design: plating model(decked: half)

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

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

water transport: motor vessel: diesel

water transport: recreation vessel: yacht

water transport: recreation vessel: yacht, racing

water transport: sailing vessel: yacht

water transport: sailing vessel: yacht, schooner

water transport: service vessel: lifeboat

water transport accessory: engine, petrol

written communication t&e: paper weight

Materials

Albumen print

aluminium

aquatint

aquatint & etching

aquatint & etching, coloured

aquatint, coloured

black ink

blue ink

board

bone?

Born digital

brass

brass, glass

bronze

bronze, ?

Brown and grey wash over graphite, heightened with white on paper (now light-stained) laid on card

c-type print

canvas

card

cardboard

coating: gilt

coating: varnish

coloured aquatint

Colour washes

copper

cord

cotton

cotton blend

crayon

dyeline

earth

electrical tape

emergency blanket

engraving

engraving & etching, coloured

engraving, brown

engraving, coloured

engraving, crayon manner, on blue paper

engraving, steel

engraving, stipple

engraving, wood

etching

etching, brown

etching, coloured

felt (baise)

Gelatine dry plate

gelatin silver print

gilt

glass

gold

graphite

Graphite

graphite & wash, grey

graphite & watercolour

graphite with grey-blue wash, on paper

green ink

grey, blue, mauve, yellow, green inkwashes

grey wash

grey wash, with graphite

hand-coloured aquatint

hand-coloured lithograph

horn

Ilfochrome classic CLM1K

ink

ink and washes on paper mounted on card

Ink corrections

iron

ivory

laminate

leather

linen

Linen backed paper

liquid

lithograph

lithograph, coloured

lithograph, tinted

machine sewn

mahogany

Manuscript ink

Marine ply, lime, ramin and boxwood. Metal - brass, copper and stainless steel, Glues used were white wood glue, epoxy and superglue, sails are tracing linen. Paints are enamel with polyurethane varnish.

metal

metal: silver plated

metal: steel

metal: zinc

mezzotint

mezzotint, coloured

mica

nylon

oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas marouflaged on Sundeala board

oil on canvas on board

Oil on oak panel

oil on oak panel

oil on paper

orange ink

organic: leather

organic: membrane

organic: membrane, human

paint

paper

Paper

paper on linen

pastel

pen

pen & ink, black & watercolour

pen & ink, brown

pen & ink, brown & wash, grey

pen & wash, grey

pen and black ink

pen and brown ink

photographic reproduction

photographic reproduction, graphite and watercolour

photogravure

photolithograph?

plastic

png format

rain

red ink

rust

sea water

silver

stainless steel

steel

string

synthetic blend

synthetic fibre

Technical drawing

tempera

textile

tin

varnish

wash

wash, brown & grey, heightened with white

wash, grey

watercolour

watercolour on sheets of paper laid on calico [photos here all in wrong order and mostly flipped]

wax

wood

Wood, metal, glass

Display Location

Display - Maritime London Gallery

Display - Nelson, Navy, Nation Gallery

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - QH

Display - ROG

Display - Sea Things Gallery

Not on display

Creator

Abbott, Lemuel Francis

Ackermann, Rudolph

Allen & Sons

Anderson, Andrew

Angeli, H. von

Angus, William

Anthonisz, Aert

Auctor

Aveline et se vend

Bardin

Barker, W. Bligh

Barker, William Bligh

Bayly, John

Baynes, Thomas Mann

Bedford, George Augustus

Beechey, William

Bell, Edward

Bellamy, C.

Bennett, W

Berge, Matthew

Bergh, Louis Arnold Vanden

Bol, Cornelis

Boydell, John

Breton, Louis Le

Brierly, Oswald Walters

Brindesie

British School, 18th century

British School, 19th century

Brooke, J

Bry, Auguste

Buckner, Richard

Bulla

Burt, Albin R.

C. C. or G. C.

Cafe, William

Captain Chetwynd

Chambers, George William Crawford

Chapman, Capt

Chavane, Edward

Cheesman, Thomas

Cherey

Clark, William

Cleveley, Robert

Collins

Cunard Line

Dadd, Frank

Davies & Company

Davis, John Scarlett

Day & Son

De La Fosse, Chatry

Delamare, F

Delarue, Francois

Delarue, Victor

de Medina, John Baptiste

Derges, Susan

Deroy, Isidore Laurent

Dodd, Robert

Donaldson, W.

Duncan, Edward

Dutton, Thomas Goldsworthy

E. Gambart & Co

Earlom, Richard

Eastley, after

Edward Hawke Locker

Edward John Dent & Co.

Edwin Hayes

Elliot, T

Emeric

English School

English School, 16th century

English School, 17th century

Etting, Flolydia M.

Eurich, Richard Ernst

Everett, (Herbert Barnard) John

F. C. Gould & Son

Fanshawe, Edward Gennys

Flamsteed, Reverend John

Fricx, Eugene Henri

Furse, Charles Wellington

Furse, Katherine

Gabriel Bray

Gavard, Charles

Gellee, Claude

Gibson & Sons of Scilly

Gibson, Alexander

Gibson, Herbert John

Gilbert

Giles, George

Goldar, John

Graves, Henry

Graves, Robert

Greig, John

Gudin, Jean-Antoine Théodore

Hanfstaengl

Harris, Douglas D.

Harris, William Snow

Havell, Robert

Haverty, J

Hawkins, S. H.

Hayter, Charles

Heath, William

Helman, Isadore Stanislas

Henry Hughes & Son Limited

Herrewyn

Hill, Henry Oliver

Hinton, A.

HM Dockyard, Devonport

HM Dockyard, Rosyth

Holl, Francis

Homann, Johann Baptist

Hoppach, C

Hudson, Henry

Huggins, William John

Hunt, C.

Hurst, Robinson & Co

Imray, James

Irwin Bevan

Jackson, John

James Birchall

James Imray & Son

James Whittle & Richard Holmes Laurie

Janet Taylor & Co

Johns, A W

Johnson Ltd

John William Edy, John William

Jones, Glyn (Owen)

Jones, Glynn O.

Jones, Glynn Owen

Kaufmann, Angelica

Kneller, Godfrey

Koehler

Kullberg, Victor

l'Auteur Impasse des Feuillantines

Laken

Lane, Samuel

Langlume

Lawrence, Thomas

Leduc, Charles

Leggatt Brothers

Lemercier

Lesage, A

Letronne, L.

Linton, Hercules

Lloyd Brothers & Co.

Logerot, A

Lowe, Jack

Lucas, John

Lucy, Charles

Ludbrook, Alan

MacAlister, P.

Maguire, Marian

Matthews, Peter

May, Phil

McLean, Thomas

McQueen

Meteorological Office

Meyer, Henry

Michael, L. H.

Milliken, R.

Molesworth, H. B.

Morel-Fatio, Antoine Léon

Morghen, Raphael

Morland, George

Mossop, W. S.

Needham, Jonathan

Nibbs, Richard Henry

Ozanne, Nicholas?

P. & D. Colnaghi & Co Ltd

Patten, Edmund

Payne, G T

Pearce, Capt

Perrot, Ferdinand Victor

Picken, Thomas

Pickersgill, Henry William

Pittman, M A

Pocock, C.

Pocock, Nicholas

Ponce, Nicolas

Pratt

Prattent, Thomas

Price, R W

Ramage, William

Ramberg, Johann Heinrich

Ramsay, James

Read & Co

Reeve, A. W.

Reeve, Richard Gilson

Reilly, after

Relly, Tamsin

Rennie, John

Reynolds, Joshua

Richardson, Jonathan

Robert Havell & Son

Robert Laurie, Robert

Romney, George

Romney, George [artist]

Romney, George [artist]; Knight, Charles [engraver & publisher]

Rosenberg, Charles

Rosser, S. F.

Russell, John

S, G D

Saint-Aulaire, Felix Achille

Sarony, Major & Knapp

Sayer, Robert

Schenk, Pieter

Schetky, John Christian

Schranz, Giovanni

Scott, Paul

Sewell, John

Sharpe, Charles William

Shortt

Simkin, R

Smith, J. R.

Smith, W C

Spink & Son Ltd

Stanfield, Clarkson

Swain, Francis

Swaine, Francis

Taylor, Janet

The Corporation of Trinity House

The Graphic

Tiffany & Co

Tilt & Bogue

Topographical Section General Staff

Turner, Charles

Twopeny, R.

UK, Art Refuge

United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)

Unknown

Usiskin, Miriam

Velde, Willem van de, the Younger

Venetian School

Vernon, H. John

Vickers Armstrong Limited

Vidal, Alexander Thomas Emeric

Wagner & McGuigan

Walke, H.

Walker, Emery

Walker, W.

Ward, William

Warre, Lt John Frederick

Webb, A

Webber, John

Weyburn Engineering Co

Wild

William Beardmore & Company

Wyllie, William Lionel

Zobel, George J.

Places

Auckland

Calais

Dalmuir

Deptford Dockyard

Dumbarton

Elstead, Surrey, England

England

France

Gravesend

Greenwich

HM Dockyard, Devonport

London

Mount's Bay

Newcastle upon Tyne

Paris

Penninis Head, Isles of Scilly

Perranporth

Rosyth

Spithead

The Lizard

Tilbury

United States of America

Unknown

Events

American War of Independence: Battle of the Saints, 1782

Antarctic Exploration: British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913

Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904

Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859

Crimean War, 1854-1856

Crimean War: Bombardment of Odessa, 1854

Egyptian–Ottoman War: Battle of St Jean D'Acre, 1840

Exploration: Cook's Third Voyage, 1776

French Revolutionary Wars: Action off Ushant, 1795

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794

Greek War of Independence, Battle of Navarino, 1827

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

Nine Years' War: Carrickfergus, 1690

Second Anglo–Dutch War: Four Days Fight, 1666

Seven Years' War: Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759

Syria Campaign, 1840

Williamite War in Ireland: Siege of Derry, 1689

World War I, 1914-1918

World War I: Battle of Jutland, 1916

World War II, 1939-1945

Wreck of the Northern Belle, 1857

Vessels

Aberfoyle (1885)

Aetna (1824)

Ajax (1809)

Aline (1860)

Amphion (1846)

Anson (1860)

Arethusa (1934)

Argus (1917)

Arrogant (1848)

Asia (1824)

Atalante (1812)

Augusta (1736)

Austerlitz (1852)

Australia (1892)

Belle Poule (1834)

Benbow (1813)

Black Joke (captured 1828)

Blenheim (1813)

Bounty (purchased 1787)

Breslau (1848)

Britannia (1820)

British Queen (1838)

Bronington (1953)

Caledonia (1808)

Centaure (1818)

Charlotte ca.1849

Chester (1915)

China (1855)

Columbus ca.1846 [US navy]

Crescent (1784)

Cumberland (1842)

Curacoa (1809)

Cutty Sark (1869)

D 2016

Defence (1763)

Discovery (1901)

Dragon (1845)

Dreadnought (1742)

Dreadnought (1801)

Dream fl.1865 [British]

Duc d'Angouleme(1814)

Duguesclin (1848)

Duke of Wellington (1852)

Eastbury (1943)

Edinburgh (1744)

Edinburgh (1811)

El Almirante fl.1829 [Spanish]

El Almirante [Spanish]

Espiegle (1844)

Fairy (1845)

Ganges (1782)

General Goddard (fl.1782)

Golden Hind (1577)

Guardian (1784)

Généreux (1831)

H.M.S. Warspite

Harmonie (Dutch)

Hercule (1836)

Hermes (1953)

Hogue (1811)

Imperieuse (1852)

Inflexible (1839)

Ipswich (1694)

Jeune Hortense (1858)

King George (1781)

Le Jupiter (1831)

Leopard (1850)

Lightning 1876

London (1840)

Macquarie 1875

Magicienne 1781 [British navy]

Maine fl.1899 (USS)

Majestic (1785)

Major (fl.1781)

Mary (1677)

Minden (1810)

Minnehaha (1857)

Mississippi (1841)

Monck (1660)

Montebello (1812)

Nereide 1797 [HMS]

Perseverance (1781)

Phoenix (1832)

Pique (1834)

Powerful (1826)

Presidente [Argentinian]

Primrose (1810)

Princess Charlotte (1825)

Princess Royal (1842)

Princess Royal (1853)

Prins van Oranje fl.(1833)

Providentia [Spanish]

Queen 1769 [British navy]

Queen Mary (1912)

Resolution fl.1865 [British]

Reunion [French Republican navy]

Rhin 1806 [HMS]

Rodney (fl.1782)

Royal George (1756)

Royal George (1827)

Royal Prince 1610

Sceptre (1781)

Seahorse (1782)

Seine (1899)

St. Jean D'Acre (1853)

Syrene (1823)

Terpsichore (1812)

Terra Nova fl.1910

Tribune (1853)

Triton (1823)

Uganda (1941)

Valiant (1914)

Velos Passahera fl.1830 [Spanish]

Vengador (fl.1829)

Vengeur du Peuple (1766)

Victoria and Albert (1843)

Vigilant (fl.1828 to 1849)

Vincennes (1826)

Waterloo (1818)

Waterwitch (1880)

Water Witch 1832

Zenobie (1847)

Exhibition

Art for the Nation

Enslavement and Resistance

Nelson, Navy, Nation

Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames

Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton

The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire

Turmoil and Tranquillity

War Artists Advisory Committee Collection

People

Allan, Robert William

Allan, William

Allied Fleet

Anglo-French Fleet

Austen, Henry

Balchen, John

Beresford, Charles William de la Poer

Blessley, Penelope19C

Brent, John

British Fleet

British Navy

Broke, Philip Bowes Vere

Brownfield, O Dfl

Cochrane, Thomas

Cust, W

Danish Navy

Dinteville, Jean de

Egerton, Thomas Grosvenor

English Squadron

Fitzjames, James

Freeman

French Convoy

French Fleet

French Squadron

Fynmore, James

Hamilton, Emma

Hamilton, William

Harris, Francis

Hawkins, John Croft

HM Dockyard, Chatham

Holbourn, Thomas

Johnson, William Ward Percival

King George IV

King William III

Legge, A K

Lyons, Edmund

Malcolm, Pulteney

Mossop, W. S.

Nelson, Horatio

Netherlands: Navy

Otway, Arthur

Otway, Robert Waller

Owen, Edward William Campbell Rich

Patten, Robert

Pocock, Nicholas

Portlock, Nathaniel

Portlock-Dodson, W

Prince of Wales

Queen Victoria

Randall & Brent

Romney, George

Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Royal Navy

Santa Fe Drilling Co Techserv Ltd

Sartorius, George Rose

Selve, George de

Smyth, Spencer

Sotheron, Frank

Tiffany & Co

Tschuktschi

Turco-Egyptian Fleet

Vicary, William

VII, King Edward

Walker, George

Western Ferries (Clyde) Ltd

Wiggins, Harold

William Beardmore & Company

Woolley, Richard van der Riet

Woolwich Dockyard

Young, Susan

Century

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Seine (1899) wrecked ashore at Perranporth (Glass plate negative)

Pendulum

Horatia Nelson in top hat, dress and pantaloons with a rocking horse (Drawing)

Box

Eastbury (1943)

Driving weight

Movement, dial and hands

Pulley

Suspension

The Road to Germany (Digital collection object; Map; TIFF digital file)

Paper weight made from H.M.S. 'Queen Mary' (Paper weight)

The bombardment and capture of St. Jean D'Acre (Print)

Manometer and Thermometer

Box lid

A pastoral scene (Drawing)

Nelson (Print)

Medal commemorating HMS 'Chester' and the battle of Jutland, 1916; obverse

Medal commemorating HMS 'Chester' and the battle of Jutland, 1916 (Medal)

American four-masted schooner (Drawing)

Two faint sketches of coast, showing sea wall, lighthouse and sailing vessels (Drawing)

Sketch of a man seated on a barrel (Drawing)

The Water Witch (Print)

George IV in Leith Roads (Print)

Part of spare bracket

The French brigantine Jeune Hortense (1858) aground on the beach off Long Rock, Mount's Bay (Glass plate negative)

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