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'Elizabeth' (1706). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, basic longitudinal half-breadth for 'Elizabeth' (1706), a 70-gun Third Rate, two-decker.
1720
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. Tankard with the arms of Gough impaling Hynde. Henry Gough (1681-1751) married Elizabeth Hynde in in 1719. He had commanded the Indiaman 'Streatham' and became one of the directors of the East India Company. The tankard is Chinese export porce
circa 1720
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. The backstaff is made from a lignum vitae frame with boxwood arcs and crossbar, and brass rivets. There is an inlaid boxwood plate on the main strut. The staff also has a boxwood horizon vane and shadow vane. Decorative fleurs-de-lis are stamped in var
1720
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Carte particuliere des costes de l'Afrique qui comprend le Pays de Cafres &c. Levee par ordre express des roys de Portugal sous qui on en a fait la decouverte.. Single sheet. Engr. Medium: On modern backing sheet. Scale: [ca. 1:3 000 000]. Cartog
1720
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Counter commemorating the opening up of wealthy mines in Louisiana as proposed by Law the banker. Counter commemorating the opening up of wealthy mines in Louisiana as proposed by John Law (1671-1729) the banker. Obverse: Youthful bust of King Louis XV (r
1720
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Designs for the east wall. Designs for the east side of the Upper Hall: south side of arch [Painted Hall, Greenwich] This design comprises two small sketches within drawn ink borders for the grisaille paintings which flank the Upper Hall arch: Salus Publ
1720
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Diamond (1723). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plans, sheer lined with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with lower deck and platform details, for Diamond (1723), a 1719 Establishment 44-gun Fifth Rate, two-decker. She was the replacemen
Circa October 1720
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Elevation of the north wall. The Painted Hall, Greenwich Hospital (Old Royal Naval College): sketch for George I landing at Greenwich on the north wall, Upper Hall This sketch provides further evidence both of Thornhill's mastery of pen and wash and
1720
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Falkland (1720); Warship; Fourth rate; 50 guns. Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull block model of the Falkland (1720) a 50 gun two-decker third-rate ship of the line. The model is made of wood in the bread-and-butter fashion and painted white below th
1720
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Medal commemorating Louisburg founded and fortified, 1720. Medal commemorating Louisburg founded and fortified, 1720. Obverse: Youthful bust of King Louis XV in a long wig, laureate, and armour, draped (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS XV. D. G. FRAN. ET.
1720
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Medal commemorating the arrival of Emperor Charles VI at Palermo, 1720. Medal commemorating the arrival of Emperor Charles VI at Palermo, 1720. Obverse: Head of the Emperor Charles VI in a long wig, laureate (right). Legend: 'CAROLO VI IMP . HIS . S
1720
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Medal commemorating the capture of four Swedish frigates, 1720. Medal commemorating the capture of four Swedish frigates, 1720. Obverse: Bust of Czar Peter I, laureate, in armour, draped (right), fur-lined cloak embroidered with double-headed eagles over
1720
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Prince George (1723), Namure (1729). Scale 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Prince George' (1723) and 'Namure' (1729) both 1719 Establishment 90-gun, Second Rate, three-deckers.
April 1720
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Right Honble Lord Keith, K.B. Vice Admiral of the White. Print
1720
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Superb (captured 1710). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Superb (captured 1710), a captured French Fourth Rate, as taken off at Woolwich Dockyard prior too undergoing her 'Gr
Circa April 1720
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Swedish plate money square. Plate money. Roughly square copper plate. Stamped 'FRS 1720', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815, found in
1720
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Swedish plate money square. Plate money. Roughly square copper plate. Stamped with Royal Monogram '1720', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780
1720
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View of Greenwich. The picture shows a view of the Naval College and of the Queen’s House taken from the northern bank of the Thames. The central perspective has been played up by the artist, who narrowed the river to the width of a canal, broadened
1720
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An English Fleet Coming to Anchor. The subject has traditionally been described as the 'Royal Anne' arriving with the Queen of Portugal at Spithead in 1708. However, the presence of the Hanoverian ‘GR’ on the stern of the boat betwee
late 1720s
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