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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

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Sketchbooks and albums

Telescopes Online Gallery

The Herschels as collectors

The Opium Wars

The Rise of the Seascape

Van de Velde drawings

Polar Equipment and Relics

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A Matter of Life and Death

Franklin relics

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Michael Graham-Stewart collection

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South-East Asia

South America

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Type

Adze head

agricultural t&e: fork

apparatus

armament t&e, ammunition: bag, shot

armament t&e, ammunition: ball, musket

armament t&e, ammunition: cap, percussion(94 caps of 3 types)

armament t&e, ammunition: cartridge, wire(2 cartridges)

armament t&e, ammunition: cartridges, packet of(2 packets)

armament t&e, ammunition: flask, shot

armament t&e, ammunition: hook, sword belt spring(fragment)

armament t&e, ammunition: sheath, knife

armament t&e, ammunition: shot

armament t&e: charger, shot

Arrow shaft

Axe handle

Badge: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order, 2nd class

Ball of wool

Belaying pin

belt, sword spring-hook

Bible

biological t&e: tweezers, specimen collecting

Black/white transparency

Block

Block model

Boat's thimble

Boat badge

Boat cloak

Boat weather-cloth

Boat weather cloth

Bolt

Bone comb

Book

Book cover

Book fragment

Boot lace

Bootlace

Bottle

Box

Brass pocket compass lid

Brass Strip

Bristles

Buckle

Button

Can

Case

ceremonial artifact: flag, sledge

Certificate Case

Certificate Case Base

Certificate Case Lid

Certificate of authenticity

Chart

Chronometer box

Cigar case

Clasp Knife

Clay pipe

Clay pipe fragment

Clothes brush

clothing, outerwear: glove(fragment)

clothing, outerwear: shirt(fragment)

clothing, outerwear: uniform: cloak, boat

clothing, outerwear: uniform: uniform, Flag Officer's

clothing accessory: brush, clothes

clothing accessory: buckle(5 buckles)

clothing accessory: button

clothing accessory: button(2 buttons)

clothing accessory: button(4 buttons)

clothing accessory: button(5 buttons)

clothing accessory: cord, gold ?

clothing accessory: lace, boot

clothing accessory: neckerchief

clothing accessory: ribbon

Cobbler's awl

container: box(fragment) ?

container: tin

Cooking Apparatus

Copper plate

Copper Strip

Cup

Deck, Orlop

Deck, Quarter & Forecastle

Design, Half block model

Dessert fork

Dessert spoon

Display label

documentary artifact: bible

documentary artifact: bible: New Testament

documentary artifact: book

documentary artifact: book(fragment)

documentary artifact: book, hymn

documentary artifact: book, prayer

documentary artifact: case, certificate

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial

documentary artifact: paper, government

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, orlop

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, quarter & forecastle

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper

documentary artifact: ship plan: lines

documentary artifact: ship plan: profile

documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard

documentary artifact: ship plan: propeller, screw

documentary artifact: ship plan: section, midship

Dowel

Drawing

Elm board

Eyebolt shackle

File

Fish hook

fishing & trapping t&e: hook, fish

fishing & trapping t&e: line, fishing

fishing & trapping t&e: spear, seal(part) ?

Fishing line

Flask stopper

Flint & steel

Flint and steel

Floor globe

Folder

food service t&e: fork, dessert

food service t&e: fork, table

food service t&e: handle, knife ?

food service t&e: knife, table

food service t&e: rations: can ?

food service t&e: rations: tin, pemmican

food service t&e: spoon, dessert

food service t&e: spoon, table

food service t&e: spoon, tea

food service t&e: stopper, flask

Fork

Fox dip circle

Full hull model

Full hull model; Block model

Gimlet

Glove

Gold cord

Government paper

Hair

Half block model

iceworking t&e: knife, snow

iceworking t&e: knife, snow ?

Instructional, Sectional model

Keel

Knife

Knife clasp

Knife handle

Knife sheath

Knife sheath part

Label

land transport accessory: harness, sledge

land transport accessory: runner, sledge(2 runners)

Lantern slide

Lead sheet

leatherworking t&e: awl, cobbler's

Life saving award

Lifesaving award

lighting device: box, match(vesta case)

lighting device: flint & steel

Lines

Lower deck plan

Manuscript

MAP-SHEET

Marine chronometer

medal, British: Lifesaving Medal: Royal National Lifeboat Institution Silver Medal 1824-1857

medical & psychological t&e: bottle

medical & psychological t&e: tourniquet, surgeon's

multiple use artifact: rope

multiple use artifact: rope(fragment)

multiple use artifact: twine, waxed(roll of)

Musket ball

Nail

Neckerchief

Oak chock

Oar

optical t&e: eyepiece, telescope

Order

Packet of cartridges

Packets of cartridges

Paddle

Painting

Pemmican tin

Pencil case

Percussion caps

personal gear: case, cigar(fragment)

personal gear: flask, pocket water

personal gear: goggles, snow

personal gear: handle, axe

personal gear: knife

personal gear: knife, clasp

personal gear: lenses, spectacle

personal gear: purse, bead

personal gear: shovel(part)

personal gear: smoking gear: pipe, clay(13 fragments of at least 3 pipes)

personal gear: stem, pipe

personal symbol: broad arrow

personal symbol: crest

personal symbol: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order

personal symbol: seal, admiralty

Photograph album

Photographic print

Pipe stem

Plan

Pocket chronometer

Pocket compass

Pocket watch

Pocket water flask

Port-fire

Prayer book

presentation artifact: badge, Knight Commander

presentation artifact: cup

Profile

Purse

relic: bolt

relic: bolt ?

relic: bristles

relic: plate, copper

relic: rod, wooden

relic: sheet, lead

relic: strip, copper

Ribbon

Rivet

Rod, Wooden

Roll

Rolled film negative

Roll film negative

Rope

Rope grommet

Sail

Sail canvas

Sailmaker's palm

Scented soap

Scissors

Scissors, sewing

Seal

Sealing wax

section, midship

Sectional model

Sectional model; Stern model

Sewing set

Sheet block

Sheet film negative

Ship model

Shirt

Shot

Shot bag

Shot charger

Shot flask

Shotgun

Shot in glove fingers

Shovel

Sledge flag

Sledge harness

Sledge runner

Snow goggles

Snow knife

Specimen collecting tweezers

Spectacle lenses

Spectacles case

Spoon

Stanchion

Stanchions

Stern model

Surgeon's tourniquet

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket

surveying & navigational t&e: dip circle, Fox

Sword belt spring

Sword belt spring-hook

Sword belt spring hook

sword spring-hook belt

Table spoon

Tablespoon

Tea spoon

Technical drawing

Telescope draw tube

Telescope draw tube fragment

Telescope eyepiece

Telescope lens

telescope tube

textileworking t&e: palm, sailmaker's

textileworking t&e: scissors, sewing

textileworking t&e: set, sewing(housewife)

textileworking t&e: wool, ball of

timekeeper: chronometer, marine(8 day)

timekeeping t&e: box, chronometer

timekeeping t&e: case, watch(fragment)

timekeeping t&e: chronometer, pocket

timekeeping t&e: watch, pocket(fragment)

Tin

Tin base

toilet article: comb, bone

toilet article: soap, scented(4 fragments)

Toothbrush handle

Tourniquet

Upper deck plan

Vesta case

visual communication t&e: port-fire

Watch

Watch cap

Watch case

Watch dust cover

Watch relic

Watercolour

Waterline model

water transport: exploration/research vessel: bomb vessel (HMS)

water transport: exploration/research vessel: exploration vessel

water transport: fighting vessel: battery, armoured (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: battery, floating (iron: HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: battery, floating iron (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: bomb

water transport: fighting vessel: bomb vessel (HMS)

water transport: hunting vessel: whaler

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

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

water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel

water transport: sailing vessel: barque

water transport: sailing vessel: cutter

water transport: service vessel: fireship

water transport: steam vessel: steamship

water transport: steam vessel: yacht

water transport: yacht

water transport accessory: badge, boat

water transport accessory: block

water transport accessory: block(fragment)

water transport accessory: block, sheet(with hook)

water transport accessory: board, elm

water transport accessory: chock, oak

water transport accessory: cloth, boat weather(fragment)

water transport accessory: eyebolt, shackle ?

water transport accessory: grommet, rope

water transport accessory: hoop, yard

water transport accessory: keel

water transport accessory: nail

water transport accessory: oar(2 fragments of one blade)

water transport accessory: paddle

water transport accessory: pin, belaying

water transport accessory: rivet

water transport accessory: sail(fragment)

water transport accessory: stanchion(3)

water transport accessory: thimble, boat's

water transport accessory: toggle, wooden

water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(stern)

water transport component: stern: square

Waxed twine

Wire cartridge

Wooden toggle

woodworking t&e: dowel

woodworking t&e: dowel ?

woodworking t&e: file

woodworking t&e: gimlet(common shell gimlet)

written communication t&e: case, pencil

written communication t&e: seal

written communication t&e: wax, sealing

Yard hoop

Materials

Albumen print

animal hair

antler

black ink

blue colourwash

blue ink

blue wash

bone

brass

bristle

British oak

brown colourwash

brown wash

canvas

card

Card

cardboard

caribou (Rangifer tarandus) antler

caribou (Rangifer tarandus) sinew

Cellulose acetate negative 'safety film'

Cellulose nitrate negative

Chalk & watercolour

cherrywood

clay

Cloth

cloth

coating: enamel

coating: paint

coating: varnish

copper

copper alloy

cork

cotton

crayon

elm

enamel

engraving & etching

fabric

felt

flint

gilt

gilt brass

glass

gold

graphite

grass

green ink

grey colourwash

gunpowder

hand sewn

hemp

horn

ink

iron

ivory

lead

leather

leather (cattle)

leather (lamb)

linen

mahogany

metal

metal: alloy, copper

metal: brass

metal: iron

musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) horn

oak

oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

oil on canvas on board

paint

paper

pen & ink, black

pencil

photographic prints

plaster

Polyester negative

printed paper

red ink

rope

shell

silk

silver

silver-gilt

soap

steel

textile

tin

twine

varnish

watercolour

Watercolour

watercolour, with graphite

white metal

wood

wood (walnut)

wood: mahogany

woodcut

wool

Display Location

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - Sea Things Gallery

Display - Voyagers

Not on display

Creator

A. Myers

Adams, George

Arnold, John Roger

Arrowsmith, John

B. Fellows

Bateman, Hester

Beard, Richard

Beechey, Richard Brydges

Bishop, William

Blomfield, Charles James

Boulton, Matthew

British School, 19th century

Brown, William

Captain McClintock

Carmichael, John Wilson

Chatterton, Randall

Cheyne, J. P.

D., J.

Davis, John Edward

Davy, Charles

Dover, A. W.

E., R.

E. Terry & Co

Eaton, William

Eley, William

Esterbrook, William

Fearn, William

Fothergill, John

Fox, Robert Were

Franklin, Jane

George, W.

Goldner, Stephen

Hardy, E P

Hardy, James Robert

Herbert George Ponting

Holliday, Cornelius Brook

Hooper, Lieutenant Geoffroy William Winsmore

H V

I.T.

I L

Illustrated London News

IV, John Harris

J H

John & Henry Lias

John Millikin

Jones, William, & Co

Low, Josiah

Marshall, William

Marston, George Edward

Mortimer & Hunt

Mowbray, George Henry

Murphy, D. F.

Musin, Francois Etienne

Northcote, Thomas

Parkin, Isaac

Parkinson & Frodsham

Pearce, Stephen

Phillips, after Thomas

Ponting, Herbert George

Priestley, Raymond Edward

R., J.

Robins, Thomas Sewell

Savory, Thomas Cox

Shackleton, Ernest Henry

Shaw & Marshall

Shipway, Charles

Smith

Smith, William Thomas

Smyth, William Henry

Spode Ltd

Stanford, Edward

S Z

Taylor, Joseph

Thomas Ward & Co

Turcon, C.

Turner, Charles

United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)

Unknown

W., R.

Wallis, Robert

Waters, David Watkin

West, M.

Westwood Baillie & Co, London

Whiting, John James

Wildman, John Robert

William Jones & Co.

Wilson, Edward Adrian

Wyllie, William Lionel

Wyon, William

Younger, James Wyld The

Places

Birmingham

Canada

Chatham Dockyard

Dover

Dublin

East Stead, England

Edinburgh

Exeter

Falmouth

London

McMurdo Sound

Mount Erebus

Navy Office

Near Cape Evans, Ross Island, Antarctica

Nunavut

Portsmouth Dockyard

Ross Island, Antarctica

Ross Sea

Shanghai

Unknown

Whitehall

Woolwich Dockyard

Yeominster, England

Events

Antarctic Exploration: British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913

Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904

Antarctic Exploration: James Clark Ross's voyage, 1838-1843

Arctic Exploration: Back's voyage, 1836-1837

Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854

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

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Austin, 1850-1851

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Belcher, 1852-1854

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Collinson, 1850-1855

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Hall, 1864-1869

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

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

Vessels

Aetna (1824)

Assistance (1835)

Baden (1915)

Beagle (1820)

Comet (1807)

Devastation 1820

Erebus (1807)

Erebus (1826)

Erebus (1856)

Erebus (1916)

Etna 1824

Fox (1855)

Fury (1814)

Hecla (1815)

Infernal 1815

Lightning (1806)

Meteor (1823)

Nimrod 1865

Prometheus (1807)

Resistance (1861)

Resolute (purchased 1850)

Sulphur (1826)

Tartarus (1806)

Terra Nova (1884)

Terror (1813)

Thais (1806)

Thunder (1829)

Valiant (1863)

Vesuvius (1823)

Volcano (ordered 1819)

Warrior (1860)

Exhibition

North-West Passage

Time and Longitude

People

Alexander McDonald, Alexander

Arnold, John Roger

Back, George

Biscoe, John

Closson, William

Collins, Henry F.

Cook, James

Couch, Edward

Cracroft, Emma

Crozier, Francis Rawden Moira

Dampier, William

Edwards, George

Fairholme, James Walter

Fitzjames, James

Fowler, William

Franklin, Jane

Franklin, John

Goodsir, Harry D.S.

Gore, Graham

Greenwich Hospital

Hall, Charles Francis

Hickey, Cornelius

Hobson, William Robert

Hodgson, George Henry

Hornby, Frederick John

Irving, John

I W

J O

Jones, William

Kallihirua, Erasmus

King George IV

Le Vesconte, Thomas Henry Dundas

Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

Magellan, Ferdinand

Mark, William

Marston, Veronica

McClintock, Francis Leopold

McClintock, H. F.

Netchillik, Ookwolik

Ommanney, Erasmus

Osmer, Charles H.

Peddie, John Smart

Pim, Bedford Clapperton Tryvillion

Reed, William

Reid, James

Rhodes, William

Robert Napier & Sons

Ross, James Clark

Royal United Service Institution

Sargent, Robert Orme

Stanley, Stephen Samuel

Terry, Thomas

Thomas, Robert

Voeux, Charles Frederick Des

Wilks, Henry

Century

18th

19th

20th

unknown

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'Perilous position of H.M.S. Terror, Captain Back, in the Arctic Regions in the summer of 1837' (Painting)

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