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A Dutch Naval Captain, circa 1690-1704. A three-quarter-length portrait to right, wearing armour and a lace cravat. The sitter, wearing his own hair, faces forwards and meets the gaze of the viewer. His right arm rests on a table on which are placed a cha
1690
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Counter commemorating the victory over the Dutch. Counter commemorating the victory over the Dutch. Obverse: Admiral Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (1678-1737) as a youth with long hair in a mantle (right). Legend: 'L . ALEX . DE . BOV
1690
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Description geographique de la Nouvelle France conquise par les armees victorieuses de Guillaume troisieme Roy de la Grande Bretagne France et Irelande &c. apres que les Francois ont ete en possession de ce grande, riche, et excellent pays plus de cen
1690
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Medal commemorating Queen Mary Regent and the repair of the fleet. Medal commemorating Queen Mary Regent and the repair of the fleet. Obverse: Bust of Queen Mary laureate. Legend: 'MARIA D . G . M . BRIT : FRAN : ET HIB : REGINA F . D . P . A '
1690
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Medal commemorating the action off Beachy Head, 1690. Medal commemorating the action off Beachy Head, 1690. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig with curls on the neck (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: K
1690
National Maritime Museum

Medal commemorating the action off Beachy Head, 1690. Medal commemorating the action off Beachy Head, 1690. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig with curls on the neck (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX CHRISTIANNISIMUS.' Reverse: O
1690
National Maritime Museum

Medal commemorating the action off Beachy Head, 1690. Medal commemorating the action off Beachy Head, 1690. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig with curls on the neck and showing at the back (right). Legend: 'LVDOVICVS . MAGNVS . REX . CHRI
1690
National Maritime Museum

Medal commemorating the capture of Malvasia, 1690. Medal commemorating the capture of Malvasia, 1690. Obverse: Hercules trampling upon the dragon seizing the golden apples from the tree (right). Legend: 'ALCIDES DOMITO RAPIT AUREA POMA DRACONE.'
1690
National Maritime Museum

Medal commemorating the safety of the harbours. Medal commemorating the safety of the harbours. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig with curls on the neck (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: Broadside sta
1690
National Maritime Museum

Stellarum fixarum hemisphaerium australe: The southern hemisphere projected on the plane of the aequator in which all the stars in the Britannick Catalogue and those observ'd by Dr Edm Halley at the Is of St Helena are carefully layd down for the yea
1690
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Stellarum fixarum hemisphaerium boreale: The northern hemisphere projected on the plane of the aequator in which all the stars contain'd in the Britannick Catalogue (as publish'd by Dr Halley) are carefully laid down and adapted to the beginning
1690
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William Rex. Print
1690
National Maritime Museum

Windsor Castle. A prospect of Windsor Castle, which is one of several produced by the artist. This one dates to about 1690. The scene shows the whole panorama of the castle. On the tree-lined roadway which runs through the park below the castle is a coach
1690
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A Fresh Breeze in the Mediterranean. Several ships have been depicted sailing through a squall. In the foreground, to the right, a lateen-rigged Mediterranean vessel forges into the picture plane on a wind blowing abeam from left to right. It appears to b
1690s
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A new map of England and Wales with the direct and cross roads. Sold by Philip Lea.. Scale: 1:1,000,000. Map of England and Wales, in four parts. Table of counties and county towns. Printed on silk, rolled in ivory case painted orange. Case 17.5 cms high.
[1690]
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Celestial table globe. Celestial table globe. Astronomical details on the sphere show a labelled magnitude table to the left of Auriga. The Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds are labelled, and there are labels for the nova in Cassiopeia, Cygnus and Ophiu
Plates produced: circa 1621; Globe assembled: 1690
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Samuel Pepys Esqr. Engraved after the 1689 portrait by Kneller (BHC2947) commissioned by Pepys and then in his possession. The image was used for Pepys's late bookplate but originally in another version in which it is set in a trompe l'oeil of p
1690 or later
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