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. A goblet with a bucket bowl, a plain stem with two tear-shaped bubbles and a domed foot with a pontil mark. The bowl is wheel-engraved with a merchantman. Inscribed around the rim: 'SUCCESS TO THE PROVIDENCE AND JON ELLIOT.'
1740
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1740
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1740
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A new map or chart of the western or Atlantic ocean with part of Europe, Africa and America: shewing the course of the galleons, flota &c. to and from the West Indies.. Single sheet, engraving. Scale: [circa 1:17,000,000]. Graduated for latitude and l
1740
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Admiral The Honourable Charles Stewart, 1681-1741. (Updated, August 2015) A three-quarter-length portrait to right, wearing a blue velvet coat lined with red silk, blue breeches and a red waistcoat laced with gold. His dress wig is white and he reclines a
1740
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Dreadnought (1742); Medway (1742). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Dreadnought (1742) and Medway (1742), both 1733 Establishment 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers. The plan notes
19 December 1740
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Dreadnought (1742); Medway (1742). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, quarterdeck cabin plan, and longitudinal half-breadth for building Dreadnought (1742) and Medway (1742), both 1733 Establishment 60-gun Fourth Ra
Circa December 1740
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Exeter (1744). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board outline with some detail, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for Exeter (1744), 60-gun fourth Rate, two-decker. The plan has some differences to ZAZ1684,
Circa April 1740
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Exeter (1744). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board with some detail, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Exeter, a 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker. Signed by Peirson Lock [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1726-1742]
Circa 1740-1742
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Hastings (1741); Liverpool (1741). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with some frame detail, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Hastings (1741) and Liverpool (1741), both 44-gun Fifth Rate, two-deckers building at Li
1740
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Mars (1740); Warship; Fourth rate; 64guns. Scale: 1:96. Block model of the 'Mars' (1740), a French 64-gun, two-decker ship of the line.
1740
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Portus Pulchri, on Isthmo Panamensi siti accurata Ichnographia ex prototypo Londinensi, desumta prostat in Officina Homaniana 1740 cum Privil S. Coes Majest. Technique includes engraving.
1740
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Rupert (1740); Warship; Fourth rate; 60 guns. Scale: 1:48. A block design model of the ‘Rupert’ (1740), a 60-gun, two-decker ship of the line. The model has dimensions very close to those of the Establishment of 1733 for 60-gun ships and was v
1740
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Scenographia Portus pulchri ex prototypo Londinensi recusa per Heredes Homannianos. Technique includes engraving.
1740
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The Honble Edward Vernon Esqr. Vice Admiral of the Blue And Commander in Chief of all His Majestie's Ships in the West-Indies. To the Rt: Hon: ble the Lord Mayor the Court of Aldermen & ye Common Council of ye City of London, this Plate is humbly
1740
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Warship; Sixth rate; 24 guns. Scale: 1:48. A block design model of a 24-gun sixth-rate sloop (circa 1740). The model probably represents the design for the 1741 Establishment ships like the ‘Sheerness’, launched at Rotherhithe in 1743. They we
1740
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'A View of Tilbury Fort'. Plate No 77.
about 1740
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'Cowes Castle in the I. of Wight'. Plate No. 75.
about 1740
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'The Governours House at Portsmouth'. Plate No 81.
about 1740
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Robert Blake General and Admiral of the Forces of England &c Denatus 17 Aug 1657 Aetat 59. Technique includes etching.; Text in English below title.
24 Jan 1740
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Robert Blake, General and Admiral of the Forces of England. Technique includes engraving and etching.; Text in English below image.
24 Jan 1740
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Hastings (1741). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Hastings (1741), a 1733 Establishment 44-gun Fifth Rate, two-decker. Signed by Jacob E. Acworth [Surveyor of the Navy, 1715
14 February 1740
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The Rt Honble The Lord Aubrey Beauclerck slain at Cartagena in America, Feb the 24th 1740/1, in the 31st year of his Age. Text in English below image.
1746
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The Rt Honble The Lord Aubrey Beauclerck Slain at Cartagena in America, Feb: 24th 1740/1 in the 31st Year of his Age. Technique includes etching.
1746
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European Race for A Distance. Anno Dom. MDCCXXXX (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.
26 Feb 1740
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A Prospect of Portsmouth (Harbour). Print
16 Mar 1740
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To James Vernon... This Plate... Taking of Porto Bello by Adml Vernon Novr 22nd 1739... (shows the 'Burford' and 'Hampton Court'). Print. This print was the basis for George Chambers 1838 painting of the event (BHC0355), commissioned b
23 Mar 1740
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The European State Jockies Running a Heat for the Balance of Power (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.
25 Mar 1740
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This Plan of the Harbour, Town and Forts of Porto Bello (taken by Edward Vernon Esqr Vice Admiral of the Blue on 22nd of November 1739. With six Men of War only) (with key). Print.
27 Mar 1740
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A Perspective view of ye Harbour, Castles & Town of Porto Bello... Vice Admiral Vernon... took the same on 22nd of November 1739... (with key). Print
21 Apr 1740
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An exact prospect of the town of Carthagena in the Spanish West Indies [and] A New & exact plan of the harbour town & forts of Carthagena in the West Indies from a Spanish draught taken by Sr D'anville Geographer to the King of Spain (with de
1 May 1740
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Spanish Insolence chastized or a View of the Town Port & Forts of Porto Bello a------ by 6 of his Majesties Ships of War under the Command of Vice Admiral Vernon on ye 21 November 1739. Text in English below image.
3 May 1740
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Admiral Hosiers Ghost. The poet Richard Glover (1712–85) penned ‘Hosier’s Ghost’ in 1739. The rhyme was designed to rouse British sympathies against the Spanish. Hosier had been involved in the blockade of the Caribbean port of Por
July 1740
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Kinsale (1741). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Kinsale (1741), a 1733 Establishment, 44-gun Fifth Rate, two-decker. The annotation relating to the plan being returned and the C
16 July 1740
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Drake (1741); Hawk (1741). No Scale. Plan showing basic fittings of upper deck, and fore and aft platforms for Drake (1741) and Hawke (1741), both 8-gun Sloops.
Dated: 13 November 1740
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The Evil Genius of England Represented in Several Scenes relating to the War (caricature). Technique includes etching.; Hand-coloured.
6 Dec 1740
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