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. Bell. Broad arrow on one side, lettering round upper part 'VICTVALING OFFISE AT DOVER 1705'. Remains of canons - rectangular sections without tapering bases. Top moulding wire of two above the inscription is right on the tangent point at the s
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A Dutch pink in a heavy sea. This line drawing shows a pink (a small, square-rigged vessel commonly used at the time for fishing) negotiating a heavy sea. Two other pinks and a larger ship at anchor feature in the distance. The efficiency with which the a
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A ship dismasted in a gale. Four ships struggle in a stormy sea in this dramatic pen and wash drawing, made towards the end of the artist’s life. The most visible vessel, to the left of centre, is lifted by a wave as it lies-to having lost its mainm
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A smalschip coming in to the shore. Signed by artist and dated.
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Celestial table globe. Celestial table globe. Astronomical details on the sphere include a labelled magnitude table, inside a cartouche. The Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds are labelled. Below the cartouche is an address to the reader on precession. A
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Counter commemorating the Battle of Malaga, 1704. Counter commemorating the Battle of Malaga, 1704. Obverse: Admiral Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (1678-1737) (right). Legend: 'LOUIS ALEXA . DE BOURBON COMTE DE TOULOUZE ADMIRAL DE FCE
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Counter commemorating the Battle of Malaga, 1704. Counter commemorating the Battle of Malaga, 1704. Obverse: Bust of King Louis XIV in a long wig (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX'. Reverse: An eagle scattering thunderbolts upon four wreck
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Dutch whalers in the ice. Oil painting
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Le de troit de Gibraltar ou sont exactement observee la maree &c.. Single sheet. Hand col. engr. Scale: [ca.1:95 000]. Cartographic Note: North at 354 degrees. Ungraduated. Rhumb lines. Soundings. Contents Note: Bands of tidal flow and currents shown.
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Medal commemorating the capture of Barcelona, 1705. Medal commemorating the capture of Barcelona, 1705. Obverse: Bust of King Charles III of Spain in a long wig, armour, mantle, collar and badge of the Golden Fleece. Legend: 'CAROLVS . III . D . G .
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Medal commemorating the capture of Reval, 1705. Medal commemorating the capture of Reval, 1705. Obverse: Bust of Czar Peter I, laureate, in armour and cloak (right). Legend: 'PETRVS . ALEXII . FIL . D . G . RVSS . IMP . M . DVX MOSCOVIAE .' Reve
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Nouvelle carte des costes d'Espagne avec les plans des ports qui se trouvent sur la coste et dans les isles de Majorque Minorque et Yuice. Par A Massy pilote hauturie sur les galeres du Roy en 1705.. Single sheet. Ms. Physical description Note: Coast
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Queen Anne, 1665-1714. (Updated, February 2018) This is one of several recorded studio versions of a portrait of Queen Anne by Michael Dahl (1656-1743), who shared much of the court portraiture of her reign (1702-14) with the older and more distinguished
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Rear-Admiral Sir John Munden, c. 1645-1719. A three-quarter length portrait to right, showing Munden standing to one side of a stone pillar. He wears a buff coat, a breastplate and a full bottom wig with a red sash round his waist. His right hand rests ag
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Two ships lying ahull in a heavy sea. A drawing of two ships lying ahull in a heavy sea. It is marked in the middle of the sky with a circle at the intersection of two lines. This rapid sketch shows on the left a ship pitching and heeling slightly to st
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