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4. Astronomy and print

Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)

Caricatures

Green Blackwall collection

Herschel family

Lieutenant Gabriel Bray (1750–1823)

Maritime Art Greenwich

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Miniatures

Nicholas Pocock

Oil paintings

Opium Wars

Popular Astronomy

Prints, drawings and watercolours

Recent acquisitions

Sketchbooks and albums

Telescopes Online Gallery

The Herschels as collectors

The Opium Wars

Van de Velde drawings

Oceanography

Ship Plans

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Admiralty Collection

Merchant Collection

Sailing Navy

Type

35mm roll film

Adjusting pin

Anemometer

Anemometer parts

Arrow shaft

astronomical t&e: telescope(refracting comet seeking)

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic signalman's

Autocarta

Backboard

Backing paper

Backing plate

Bathythermograph Slides

Book

Box

Box of Bathythermograph Slides

Box of Bathythermograph Smoked Slides

Box with glass slides for a Bathythermograph

Brochure

Builder's, Full hull model

Bunk

Case

Case fragment

Celestial chart

ceremonial artifact: standard

Chart

commemorative artifact: shield

Copper cylindrical object

Current meter - indicator unit

Current meter - underwater indicator

Decorative medal mount

Depth sounder

Diploma

documentary artifact: diploma, exhibition

documentary artifact: ship plan

Dowel

Drawing

D shackle

Echosounder

Embroidery transfer

Envelope

Ephemera

Eyepiece

Film Magazine

Folder

Frame

Full hull exhibition model

Full hull model

Full hull model; Rigged model

furniture, ship's: bunk

Glass lantern slide

Glass plate negative

Globe

Headset

Hood key

Jib-boom

Knot meter

Lightship clock timing mechanism

Lightship mechanism

Log readout

Manuscript

Map

MAP-SHEET

Mast

Mechanism

Medal

Medal ribbon

Menu card

Menus

meteorological t&e: thermometer

Miniature

Nansen-Petterson water bottle

Nansen Petterson water bottle

Naval telescope

Nelson's Ship in a Bottle

Night telescope

Ocean Monitor

Octant

Octant box

original art: picture, silhouette

original art: picture, woolwork

original art: print

Package

Painting

personal symbol: coat of arms, Greenwich Hospital

Photograph

Photograph album

Photographic print

Picture

picture, woolwork

Plate

Pocket globe

Printing plate

Prize medal

Quintant

Rangefinder tripod

Rangefinde tripod

Record Annotator

relic, ship: timber

relic: rock, volcanic

Reversing holder for a deep sea thermometer

Rigged model

Rock

Rule

Sea-bed samples

Sextant

Sheet film negative

Shield

Sight tube

silhouette

Sleeve

Standard

Steering compass

Steering compass stand

surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: machine, sounding

surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: thermometer

surveying & navigational t&e: octant

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant

Technical drawing

Telescope

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

Thermometer

Tidegauge Receiver

Timber

Timetable

transfer, embroidery

Transponder

Tripod

Trisponder

Trisponder dataprinter

visual communication t&e: code, signal

Volcanic rock

Volume of four plates

Water bottle

Water bottle - Nansen Pettersson type

water transport: cargo vessel

water transport: cargo vessel: bulk carrier, vegetable oils

water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 2 decker

water transport: fighting vessel: 3 decker (Spain)

water transport: fighting vessel: bomb vessel (HMS)

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

water transport: fighting vessel: motor launch

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

water transport: motor vessel

water transport: motor vessel: twin screw

water transport: service vessel: lifeboat (Cromer)

water transport: steam vessel

water transport: steam vessel: steamship

water transport: steam vessel: turbine

water transport: unknown function: cutter

water transport: unknown function: ship

weights & measures t&e: samples, sea-bed

woodworking t&e: dowel

Woolwork picture

Materials

Acrylic medium on hardboard.

albumen

Aluminum, plastic

aquatint

aquatint & engraving

aquatint & etching

aquatint, coloured

black ink

blue aquatint

board

brass

brass, glass

bronze

bronze, ?

c-type print

canvas

card

cellulose nitrate

Cellulose nitrate negative

ceramic?

chalk, black & wash, grey

Dibond

digital c-type print

dyeline

engraving

engraving & etching

engraving, brown

engraving, coloured

engraving, crayon manner

engraving, steel

engraving, stipple

engraving, stipple & etching

engraving, wood

etching

Etching

etching, brown

etching, coloured

Fibre-based photographic print from a black and white negative

gelatin

Gelatine dry plate

gelatin silver print

gilt

glass

gold

graphite

grey wash

gunmetal

hand-coloured etching

hand-tinted, scanned and printed as giclee print on Hahnemühle Matt Fine Art Rag Paper

hand sewn

horn

human hair

ink

inorganic: glass

inorganic: rock, volcanic

ivory

leather

linen

linen-backed

lithograph

lithograph, coloured

mahogany

metal

metal: brass

metal: copper

metal: silver

metal: steel

mezzotint

Mezzotint

mezzotint & etching

mezzotint, brown

mezzotint, coloured

mezzotint, tinted

mezzotint, varnished

Mixed media, including: acrylic (PMMA), cast resin, wood, brass and printed canvas

oil

oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

oil on fine canvas or linen, with graphite

oil on paper

oil painting

on vellum, laid on fruitwood panel

organic: cotton

organic: paper

organic: paper, tissue

Ozatrace

paint

paper

paper, crayon

pastel

pen & ink, brown & watercolour

pen & ink, red

pen and black ink

photographic reproduction

photogravure

plastic

porcelain

printed: batik

red ink

reproduction, half-tone

rope

rubber

sepia

silk

silver

steel

stipple

textile

watercolour

watercolour, heightened with white

watercolour and body colour, gold and silver leaf

wood

wood: pine

wood?

wool

Display Location

Display - All Hands Gallery

Display - Atlantic Gallery

Display - Main Museum Grounds

Display - Maritime London Gallery

Display - Nelson, Navy, Nation Gallery

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - QH

Display - ROG

Display - Sea Things Gallery

Display - Traders Gallery

Display - Tudor and Stuart Seafarers Gallery

Not on display

Creator

Abbot

Abbott, J. E.

Abbott, John White

Abbott, Lemuel Francis

Ackermann, Rudolph

Adams, Edgar Tarry

after Sir Joshua Reynolds

Andrews, George

Angus, William

Asperne, J

Asperne, James

Aveline, Pierre

B., J. M.

Baines, Edward

Baker, Nina Crampton

Bakewell, Thomas

Baldwin, Robert

Balston

Bardwell, Thomas

Baron, Hugh

Barr & Stroud Ltd

Barron, Hugh

Bartolozzi, Francesco

Bartolozzi, Gaetano Stefano

Bean, Alan LaVern

Bedwell, Edward P.

Beechey, after William

Beechey, Richard Brydges

Beechey, William

Beetham, Isabella

Bellamy, T.

Bennett, John

Benoist

Benoist, Guillaume Philippe

Bentley, Richard

Berge, Matthew

Bergen-Nautik

Berigeroth, Johann Martin

Bestland, C.

Bestland, Cantelowe

Bickham, George

Black, H.

Black, Maureen

Blaisot, H

Blood

Blood, T.

Bock, Johann C

Bockman, G.

Bocquet, E

Bollinger

Bone, Muirhead

Bosio, G B

Bowles, Carington

Bowles, John

Bowyer, Robert

Boydell, John

Bretherton, James

Briggs, Enid Semple

British School

British School, 18th century

British School, 19th century

Broadhead, Maisie Maud

Bromley, William

Brompton, Richard

Brookes & Gatehouse

Brooks, John

Brown, J

Brown, Mather

Brown, W H

Bry, Johann Theodor de

Buncombe, Charles

Bunney & Gold

Burford, Thomas

Caldwall, James

Caldwall, John

Calle, Paul

Cambridge Instrument Co. Ltd.

Captain Alan John Villiers

Carbonnier

Cerachi

Chamberlin, Mason

Chapman, John

Charles Connell and Company

Chinese

Churchill, W. A.

Clifford, Henry

Clifford, John

Clint, George

Cochran, James, J

Cochran, John

Colburn, Henry

Collyer, Joseph

Cook, G.

Cook, Henry R.

Cook, Henry Richard

Cook, Thomas

Cooper, Edward

Cooper, R

Cooper, Richard

Copley, John Singleton

Cotes, Francis

Counting Instruments Ltd.

Craig, William Marshall

Crosby, B.

Crosby, Benjamin

Cruikshank, Isaac

Cunard Line

Dahl, Michael

Dance, Nathaniel

Daniela Corda

Danloux, Henri Pierre

Darton, William, & Son

Davies & Bryer

Davies & Company

Davies, Bryer & Company

Debrett, John

Dickinson & Watson

Dickinson, William

Dobson, William

Dorman, J.

Dormer, John Baptist Joseph

Doughty, William

Downman, John

Drummond, Samuel

Dudley, Robert

Dudley, Robert Charles

Duncan, Edward

Dunkarton, Robert

Dupont, Gainsborough

Dyck, Anthony van

Earlom, Richard

Edwards, John

Eertvelt, Andries van

Ellis, John

Engelmann & Cie

Essen, W. M. Van

Evans, B. B.

Evans, J

Evans, John

Evans, William

Everett, (Herbert Barnard) John

Every, George H.

Faber, Johan

Fairburn, John

Faulder, R.

Faulder, Robert

Fielding & Walker

Fielding, John

Fiessinger, Franz Gabriel

Finden, Edward Francis

Fisher, Edward

Fisher, Son & Co.

Fores

Fores, S. W.

Forrest, Charles

Fraser, John

Freeman, Samuel

Fry, William Thomas

G., R.

Gainsborough, Thomas

Gardiner

Gardner, after Daniel

Gardner, Daniel

Gardner, H D

Gardner, John

Gebrüder Schumann

Gibson, Thomas

Godefroy, E.

Godfrey, Oliver

Gold, Joyce

Goodall, E. A.

Gordon, Leah

Grainger, W

Graves, H

Graves, Henry

Greatbach, William

Greatbatch, William

Green, Valentine

Griffiths, R.

Grignion

Grignion, Charles

Grignon, Charles

Grundy, J. C.

H. Overton, H

Haines & Son

Hall

Hall, J, & Macklin, T

Hall, J.

Hall, John

Hamilton, A.

Hansson, G

Harding

Harding & Lepard

Harding, E.

Harding, Edward

Harding, Sylvester

Harding and Lepard

Harris, William Snow

Hasselblad

Heath, Henry

Heath, James

Hennan, J

Henry, Edward Everett

Henry Graves & Co

Henry Groves & Co

Henry Hughes & Son Limited

H Fisher, Son & Co

Hickel, Joseph

Hicks, G.

Hilliard, Nicholas

Hilmer Bocks Sohn

Hinton, John

HM Admiralty

Hodges, William

Holl

Holl, W

Holl, William

Holland, James

Hollar, Wenceslaus

Hone, Nathaniel

Hoppner, John

Hoppner, John [artist]; Phillibrown [engraver]

Houston

Huggins, James Miller

Huggins, William John

Hullet, J.

Hunt, Edwin

J. & F. Tallis

Jackman, W.

Jackson, John

Jackson, Peter

Jackson, William

Jacobus Houbraken, Jacobus

James Whittle & Richard Holmes Laurie

Janet Taylor & Co

Jean, Philippe

Jervis, John

Jervis, Martha Honora Georgiana

John Bowles & Son

John Robinson

Johnson, Thomas

John Tallis & Co

Jones, J.

Jones, John

Jordan, Timothy

Josey, R.

Joy, Thomas Musgrave

J Ryall & R Withy

Junior, Pierre Fouquet

Kay, James

Keating, George

Keenan, J.

Kelvin & Hughes Ltd

Kettle, Tilly

Killingbeck, Ben

Kingsbury, Henry

Kinnersley, I

Knapton, George

Kneller, Godfrey

Knight, Charles

Kögler, Ignatius

Landseer

Landseer, John

Lapi, Giovanni

Laurie, Richard Holmes

Lawrence, Thomas

Lawrie, N

Lely, Peter

Lenney

Lewis, W

Lewis, William & Co

Lincolnshire & South Humberside Arts

London Print Co

London Printing & Publishing Company Ltd

Lowe, Jack

Macardell, James

Macklin, Thomas

Maquignon

Marine Photo Service

Maurin, Antoine

Mequignon, Peter

Mercuard

Meyer, Henry

Miller, Andrew

Monamy, Peter

Morris, John

Moses, Henry

Mosnier, Jean-Laurent

Mote, W. T.

Mote, William Henry

Muller, J. S.

Murphy, John

Murray, John

Nibbs, Richard Henry

Noble, George

Noble, J

Northcote, James

Northcote, John

Oates, Mark

Opie, John

Orme, Daniel

Orme, Edward

Overton, M

Owen, William

P. & D. Colnaghi & Co Ltd

Page

Page, R.

Parish, Thomas Newton

Parker, Henry, & Bakewell

Parker, J

Parker, James

Pass, J.

Paye, Richard Morton

Pearce, Stephen

Perelle, Gabriel

Pether, Henry

Picart, Charles

Pollard, Robert

Pond, Arthur

Proud, W.

Purcell, Richard

R. W. Munro Ltd

R. Wilson, R

Raeburn, Henry

Ramsay, Allan

Ramsay, James

Ravenet, Simon Francois

Ravent, S

Relly, Tamsin

Reynold, Joshua, Sir

Reynolds, Joshua

Reynolds, Samuel William

Reynolds, Style of Joshua

Ribinson, H

Richard Bentley & Son

Richards

Richardson, J.

Ridley, William

Rinaldi

Rising, John

Rivers

Robert Laurie, Robert

Roberts

Roberts, James

Roberts, P.

Roberts, Piercy

Robert Sayer & John Bennett

Robins, James & Co.

Robinson, H.

Robinson, J.

Robinson, John Henry

Rogers, J.

Romney, George

Rowlandson, Thomas

Russell, John

Rutt, Loraine

Ryal, L

Ryall, Henry Thomas

Ryall, John

Ryder, Thomas

Rye, W. B.

Ryland & Bryer

Samuel William Reynolds

Sanders, Arthur N.

Saunders, Hargrove

Sayer, Robert

Schaak, J. H.

Scott, James

Scriven, Edward

Serres, John Thomas

Sewell, I.

Sewell, John

Sharp

Sharp, William

Shepperson, Matthew

Sherlock, J W

Sherlock, William P.

Sherwin, Charles

Sherwin, John H.

Sherwin, John Keyse

Shipster

Shipster, Robert

Shonibare, Yinka

Simon, Jean

Siries, Violante Beatrice

Smart, John

Smirke, Robert

Smith, J. R.

Smith, John Raphael

Spilsbury, Jonathan

Stewart, R

Stewart, Robert

Stothard, Thomas

Stow, James

Stuart, A. G.

Stuart, Gabriel

Stuart, Gilbert

Stuart, T.

Symonds, H. D.

Symonds, Henry

Tanner, J. S.

Tassie

Tassie, James

Taylor, Janet

Thomas Cadell & William Davies

Thomas Walker & Son Ltd

Thompson

Thompson, George

Tims, Robert

Tomkins, Charles

Tomkins, Peltro William

Topographical Section General Staff

Torond, Francis

Townley, Charles

Turner, Charles

unidentified

Unknown

Van Werdlen

Velde, style of Willem van de

Velde, Willem van de, the Younger

Villain, De

Wale, Samuel

Walker

Walker, J.

Walker, William

Wandelaar, Jan

Ward, James

Warren, C

Warren, Charles Turner

Watson, James

Watson, Thomas

Wedgwood, John Taylor

Weeden, Charles

Welch & Gwynne

Weller, Edward

West, Benjamin

White, George

White, J

Whood, Isaac

W H Ward & Co

W H Ward & Co Ltd

Will, John Martin

William Barnard, William

William Beechey

Williams, John

Williams, Roger

Wilson, Benjamin

Wilson, James

Wilson, Richard

Withy, R

Worthington, Nathaniel

Worthington, William Henry

WS Ocean Systems

Zincke, Christian Friederich

Zincke, Christian Friedrich

Özok, Asli

Places

Admiralty House

Birmingham

Delft

England

Germany

Glasgow

Kuwait

Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England

Livorno

London

Mitilini

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Newport, Isle of Wight, England

Paris

Peckham

Sweden

The Downs

United States of America

Unknown

Visby

Zanzibar

Events

American War of Independence: Battle of the Saints, 1782

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

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

Birth of Matthew Flinders, 1774

Exploration: Challenger expedition, 1872-1876

Exploration: Columbus' First Voyage, 1492-1493

First Opium War: Second Battle of Chuenpi, 1841

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Camperdown, 1797

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797

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

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

Royal Naval Exhibition, 1891

World War I, 1914-1918

Vessels

Alexandra (1875)

Ardoe (1880)

Benalder (1949)

Britannia (1893)

Cleveland 1671

Dreadnought (1801)

Emden (1908)

Erebus (1826)

Exhibition

Great Eastern (1858)

Marchioness of Londonderry

Matilda 1803

Monarch (1868)

Nemesis (1840)

Orient [French navy]

Royal Naval uniform regulations 1767-74 (general purpose)

Royal Naval uniform regulations 1787-95: Flag Officers (dress)

Royal Prince 1610

San Jose 1783

Seahorse (1794)

Sir David Scott 1821 [HEIC]

Temeraire (1798)

Venerable 1784 [British navy]

Viceroy of India (1929)

Victorious (1939)

Victory (1765)

Wye (1873)

Zephyr

Exhibition

Art for the Nation

Nelson, Navy, Nation

North-West Passage

Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames

The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire

Time and Longitude

Traders: The East India Company and Asia

Turmoil and Tranquillity

People

Adams, Francis Norris

Anson, George

Anson, Walter Vernon

Baillie, Thomas

Barrington, Samuel

Barrow, John

Bartolozzi, Francesco

Beaufort, Francis

Beaufort Testimonial

Bentinck, John Albert

Bentinck, William

Berry, Edward

Black, H.

Blackwood, F

Blackwood, Henry

Bligh, Richard Rodney

Bomanjee, Jamsetjee

Bone, Muirhead

Boscawen, Edward

Bowyer, George

Bowyer, Robert

Britannia

British Admirals, British Admirals

British Captains, British Captains

British Fleet

Brueys, Francois-Paul

Byng, George

Calder, Robert

Captain Faulkner

Captain John Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercom

Captain Lord Gilford

Charles Connell and Company

Churchill, W. A.

Clifford, George

Collingwood, Cuthbert

Columbus, Christopher

Cooke, Christopher

Cooke, Elizabeth

Cooke, John

Cotton, Charles

Crawford, John

Croker, John Wilson

Curtis, Roger

Cust, W

Davison, Alexander

Duncan, Adam

Edgcumbe, George

Fairfax, William George

Falmouth, Earl of

Farmer, George

Faulknor, Robert

Flinders, Matthew

Fowke, George

Gardner, Daniel

Graves, Thomas

Haldane-Duncan, Robert Dundas

Hall, William Hutcheon

Hamilton, Edward

Hamilton, F. J.

Hamilton, F. S.

Harrison, John

Harvey, Eliab

Hawke, Edward

Hervey, Augustus John

Higginson, C

Hood, Alexander

Hood, Samuel

Hornby, Geoffrey Thomas Phipps

Howe, Richard

Hughes, Edward

Hunter, John

Jervis, John

Jones, Inigo

Keith, Basil

Kempenfelt, Gustavus Adolphus

Kempenfelt, Richard

Keppel, Augustus

Keppel, George

Keppel, Henry

Kerr, William

King Ferdinand II of Aragon and V of Castile and Leon

King George IV

Lady Warren

Leake, John

Lee family

Lee Mainwaring family

Legge, A K

Locker, William

Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

Manners, Robert

Maskelyne, Nevil

Maule-Ramsay, Fox

McArthur, John

Milne, Alexander

Mitchell, Andrew

Napier, Charles John

Nelson, Catherine

Nelson, Horatio

Noble, George

Ogle, Chaloner

Palliser, Hugh

Parker, Charles Christopher

Parker, James

Parker, Lady

Parker, Peter

Pasley, Thomas

Pearson, Richard

Pellew, Edward

Portlock, Nathaniel

Portlock-Dodson, W

Pownoll, Philemon

Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of York and Albany

Prince of Wales

Prince Rupert

Queen Isabella I of Castile and Leon

Queen Victoria

Reynolds, Joshua

Reynolds Bequest

Roberts, John

Roddam, Robert

Rodney, George Brydges

Rooke, George

Ross, James Clark

Ross, John

Ross, John Lockhart

Rowlandson, Thomas

Rowley, William

Royal Navy

Royal Society

Russell, John Scott

Saunders, Charles

Saxton, Charles

Seymour, Lord Hugh

Silter

Smart, John

Smirke, Robert

Smith, Thomas

St Croix, Jasper de

Stewart, Charles

Stewart, John

Vernon, Edward

Vertue, George

Victors of the Nile

VII, King Edward

Wager, Charles

Warren, John Borlase

Weeden, Charles

Wiggins, Harold

William Salt Library

Winter, Jan Willem de

Woolley, Richard van der Riet

Worthington

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Two male portrait sketches, one crossed through (Drawing)

Box

PM5224-27; Sailor of the Sheikh Mansur keeps an eye on the sail

Red Sea voyage (35mm roll film)

Box

Stationers' Company Barge (Drawing)

Box

The Honble. Edwd. Boscawen (Print)

Zanzibar group of slaves (Photograph)

Admiral Sir William Cornwallis (Drawing)

Box

Sir Samuel Hood (proof before letters) (Print)

Box

Ships Cover for RFA Burma (1919) (Manuscript)

Box

Alexandra (Drawing)

Ships Cover for Handy (1915) (Manuscript)

Ships Cover for destroyers (general) (Manuscript)

Box

Tripod

Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount, 1724-1816 (before title) (Print)

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