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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

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Nature and National Waters

Nicholas Pocock

Oil paintings

Opium Wars

Patronage, Battles and the Exotic

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Prints, drawings and watercolours

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Telescopes Online Gallery

The Herschels as collectors

The Opium Wars

The Rise of the Seascape

Van de Velde drawings

Ship Plans

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Admiralty Collection

Merchant Collection

Sailing Navy

Victorian Navy

Warrior

Type

Accommodation model

armament t&e, artillery: gun

Bowsprit

Chart

Deck

Deck section

Display label

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, middle

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, quarter & forecastle

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper

documentary artifact: ship plan: lines

documentary artifact: ship plan: lines & profile

documentary artifact: ship plan: platform(fore & after)

documentary artifact: ship plan: profile

documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard

documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer

documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer & profile

Drawing

food service t&e: bottle, wine

Frame model

Full hull model

full hull model

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

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

Full hull model; Rigged model

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

Georgian, Full hull model

Georgian, Full hull model; Bowsprit

Georgian, Full hull model; Mast

Gun

Half hull model

Half hull model; Longitudinal model

Half hull model; Longitudinal model; Deck section

Half hull modelLongitudinal model

Inboard profile plan

Instructional, Sectional model

Lines

Lines & Profile

Longitudinal model

Lower deck plan

Manuscript

MAP-BOUND

Mast

Middle deck plan

original art: drawing

original art: print

Painting

Pistol

Plank-on-frame

Platform

Rigged model

Scenic model

Sectional model

Sectional model; Accommodation model; Half hull model; Longitudinal model

sheer

sheer & profile

Technical drawing

Upper deck plan

water transport: fighting vessel: 10 gun boat

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

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 14 gun

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 16 gun

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 18 gun

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, brig

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

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

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

water transport: sailing vessel

water transport: service vessel: fireship

water transport: service vessel: fireship (HMS)

water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(cutaway: decked: equipped: half: longitudinal: port)

water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(cutaway: decked: equipped: half: longitudinal: starboard)

Wine bottle

[The English engage the Spanish Fleet near Plymouth on 31 July 1588]

Materials

An offset, with black chalk, on three joined pieces of paper.

black ink

blackprint

board

bone

brass

brown ink

card

chalk

coating: varnish

cotton

cream, medium, slightly textured, handmade, antique laid paper

engraving

engraving & etching

etching

etching, green

fruitwood

gilt

glass

gold

gouache on vellum

graphite

graphite & wash, grey

green ink

grey wash

grisaille on canvas

hand-coloured aquatint

iron

lithograph, tinted

metal

metal: brass

mica

offset

offset (graphite)

oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

oil on canvas, frame

Oil on canvas on panel

oil on panel

oil on panel using pen and brush

organic: paper

paint

paper

Paper

pen

pen & ink, brown

pen & ink, grey wash

pen & ink wash, with watercolour

pencil

red ink

reproduction, colour

varnish

walnut

wash

watercolour

wood

wood,brass,cord,monochrome

Display Location

Display - QH

Display - Tudor and Stuart Seafarers Gallery

Not on display

Creator

Adams, Robert

British School, 19th century

Chambers, George

Dodd, Robert

Flemish School

Gravelot, Henri

Hanhart, Michael

Hanhart, Nicholas

John Hancock, John

Lely, Peter

Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de

Monogrammist V.H.E.

Parr

Parrott, William

Paton, Richard

Peter, Basil Grenville

Pine, John

Randon, Gilbert

Ryther, Augustine

Serres, Dominic

Soest, Pieter Cornelisz van

Storck, Abraham

Unknown

Velde, Willem van de, the Elder

Velde, Willem van de, the Younger

Places

Deptford Dockyard

London

Navy Office

Netherlands

Pinner, Middlesex, UK

Sheerness Dockyard

Unknown

Events

Anglo-French War: Action off Trincomalee, 1782

Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish Armada, 1588

First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Scheveningen, 1653

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

Nine Years' War: Battle of La Hougue, 1692

Second Anglo-Dutch War: Attack on the Medway, 1667

Second Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Lowestoft, 1665

Second Anglo-Dutch War; 1665-1667

Sweden-Denmark War: Battle of The Sound, 1658

Third Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Solebay, 1672

Third Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Texel, 1673

War of Jenkins' Ear, 1739-1748

War of the Austrian Succession: Battle off Toulon, 1744

Vessels

Acorn (1807)

Alecto (1781)

Anacreon (1813)

Blossom (1806)

Brederode (1644)

Bruslot a la Fonde

Cherub (1806)

Comet (1756)

Comet (1783)

Comet (1807)

Conflagration (1783)

Cormorant (1794)

Dartmouth (1655)

Diligence (1756)

Dolphin (1731)

Eendracht (1653)

Egeria (1807)

Erebus (1807)

Etna 1756

Favourite (1794)

Favourite (1806)

Fawn (1807)

Firebrand 1694 (HMS)

Firebrand 1777

Fortuin (fl.1653)

Furnace 1778

George 1672 [British navy]

Gorinchem? 1639 [Dutch navy]

Gorkum? 1638 [Dutch navy]

Gouden Leeuw 1654

Grampus (1746)

Griffin (1702)

Guernsey (1654)

Guernsey (1696)

Guernsey 1660 [British navy]

Hazard (1794)

Herald (1806)

Hesper (1809)

Holmes (1671)

Hornet (1794)

Hyacinth (1806)

Incendiary (1782)

Incendiary 1778

Infernal 1778

Lark (1794)

Leopard

Lightning (1755)

Lightning (1806)

Lucifer 1775

Lynx (1794)

Mediator (fl.1804)

Minstrel (1807)

Myrtle (1807)

North Star (1810)

Orestes (captured 1781)

Partridge (1809)

Pluto (1782)

Pluto 1756

Pluto 1777

Portsmouth 1649 [British navy]

Postiljon ca.1666 [Dutch navy]

Prince Royal (1610)

Prometheus (1807)

Providence 1637 [British navy]

Ranger (1807)

Raven (1745)

Raven (1771)

Rosamond (1807)

Royal James (1671)

Royal Prince 1670

Sabrina (1806)

Sapphire (1806)

Scorpion (1771)

Sophia 1685 [British navy]

Spitfire 1783

St Andrew (1622)

St Mathias (Dutch)

Stork (1796)

Tartarus (1806)

Thais (1806)

Thomas & Elizabeth (1688)

Tisiphone (1781)

Tweed (1807)

Vesuvius (1771)

Vulcan (1777)

Vulcan (1783)

Wanderer (1806)

Exhibition

Turmoil and Tranquillity

People

Brindley, Harold Hulme

British Fleet

Congreve, William

Cooke, John

Denmark: Navy

English Squadron

Fairborough, Charles

Farnese, Alexander

French Fleet

French Navy

French Squadron

James, E W (decendant of maker)

King George IV

King Philip II of Spain

Montagu, Edward

Netherlands: Navy

Peter, Gill

Queen Elizabeth I

Royal Navy

Swedish Navy

Velde, Willem van de, the Elder

Velde, Willem van de, the Younger

Century

16th

17th

18th

19th

20th

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Georgian, Full hull model; Mast

Lower deck plan

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Lines

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sheer & profile

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Lower deck plan

Middle deck plan

Upper deck plan

Lines & Profile

Inboard profile plan

Lines & Profile

Upper deck plan

Inboard profile plan

Upper deck plan

Lines & Profile

Middle deck plan

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