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'A surprise'. Original illustration to Marryat's 'Poor Jack' (1840). Jack (Tom Saunders) is told a story by his Greenwich Pensioner father (see PAF6067) in which a press-gang board a merchantman. One of the crew, hiding in the hol
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'Bateau pecheur', fishing boats off Naples, 1840. Callow was born in Greenwich and studied under Theodore Fielding along with Charles Bentley. In Paris during the 1830s he shared a studio with Thomas Shotter Boys through whom he was influenced b
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'Bramble and Jack carried into a French port'. Original illustration to Marryat's 'Poor Jack' (1840). The ship that Bramble and his apprentice Jack (Tom Saunders) are piloting up the channel is captured by a French privateer. They
1840
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'Cumberland' (1842). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for 'Cumberland' (1842), a 70-gun Third Rate, two-decker.
January 1840
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'Cumberland' (1842). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck for 'Cumberland' (1842), a 70-gun Third Rate, two-decker. The pencil alterations may relate to the ship's conversion to the flagship for North America and West Indies S
Possibly 1840
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'Cumberland' (1842). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for 'Cumberland' (1842), a 70-gun Third Rate, two-decker, building at Chatham Dockyard.
January 1840
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'Cumberland' (1842). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the roundhouse for 'Cumberland' (1842), a 70-gun Third Rate, two-decker, building at Chatham Dockyard.
January 1840
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'Cumberland' (1842). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for 'Cumberland' (1842), a 70-gun Third Rate, two-decker. The pencil alterations may relate to the ship's conversion to the flagship for North America and West Indies S
January 1840
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'How's her head Jack?' Original illustration to Marryat's 'Poor Jack' (1840). Jack (Tom Saunders) is being tested by Bramble the pilot, to whom he is apprentice, on his knowledge of compass bearings. He is watched by Bramble&
1840
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'Jack and his Father meeting Sir Hercules' [at Greenwich Hospital]. Illustration for Marryat's 'Poor Jack' (1840). 'Poor Jack' (Tom Saunders), his Greenwich Pensioner father and his sister, Virginia, meeting Sir Hercules
1840
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'Jack and his father under the Colonnade' [Greenwich Hospital]. Original illustration to Marryat's 'Poor Jack' (1840). Tom Saunders, nicknamed 'Poor Jack', with his father, a Greenwich Pensioner, after losing his leg at
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'Jack helping Freeman the fisherman' [off Greenwich Hospital]. Original illustration for Marryat's 'Poor Jack' (1840). (Updated February 2016) One of Stanfield's original drawings for Captain Marryat's novel 'Poor J
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'Slough. The 40ft reflector just before its demolition, 1840'. This is one of a series of drawings done by Sir John Frederick William Herschel in 1840 when he had his father's 40ft reflector telescope dismantled fearing the severely rotten
1840
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'The Fore-peak Yarn'. Original illustration to Marryat's 'Poor Jack' (1840). Jack (Tom Saunders), on his first passage as apprentice to Bramble the pilot, listens to a seamen's yarn - a ghost story of a merchantman haunted by
1840
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. A plate for printing 7.5" Admiralty steering cards -consists of a square steel printing plate, engraved with a 7.5" (19cm), graduated to 1/4 points and quadrantally in degrees. Has a "Royal Crown" below N point decoration.
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. A plate for printing 9.4" Admiralty steering cards -consists of a square steel printing plate engraved with a 9.4" (23.8cm), graduated to 1/4 points and quadrantally in degrees. Has a "Royal Crown" below N point decoration.
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. A plate for printing Admiralty Standard cards -consists of a steel printing plate engraved with a 6.75" (17.1cm), graduated to 1/4 points and quadrantally in degrees. Has a "Royal Crown" below N point decoration.
1840
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. A rummer with a bell-shaped bowl with wide fluting, a faceted inverted balluster stem and a solid conical foot. It is engraved with a depiction of a paddle steamer and two small boats with the initials 'JB'.
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. A small box containing two ruby pivots.
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. A specimen of a bell-shaped weight and jewel cup, on which the compass card was mounted with the object of steadying it.
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. A steel bar magnet, used for observing declination. It has two lenses in brass mounts attached, an objective and eyepiece, used for collimation. The bar has an inscription "N".
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. An earthenware figure group modelled as a sailor and lass. They stand side by side, he with his arm around her waist and she with her hand on his shoulder. She holds what may be a book while he has one hand in his pocket. The girl's flounced dress
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. Bowl-Brass painted black, glazed top and bottom. Has a "screw" stop mechanism on side which operates, by means of a radical bar, a sleeve on the pivot stem, thus lifting the card. Painted white on inside with a black painted lubber line. Top g
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. Bowl-Brass painted black. glazed. White on inside with painted black lubber line. Azimuth circle with sights runs on three rollers. Fore sight of arch and thread with jet reflector. Back sight of slit and peephole with two sun filters and a prism. Glazi
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. Card- Mica covered with paper, painted green with black markings, graduated to 16 points, edge of card graduated quadrantally in degrees. Needle-Flat bar type, 5.8" (14.7cm) long, with square ends. Secured to card by two brass screws. A hole is pro
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. Card- Mica covered with paper, white with black markings, graduated to 1/2 points and quadrantally in degrees, with decorated East point. Needle- Flat bar type with pointed ends 6.9" (17.6cm) in length. The centre of needle expanded to provide aper
1840
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. Card-Mica covered with paper, blue with black and blue markings, graduated to 1/4 points and quadrantally in degrees. Needle- Four heavy bar edge needles, of rolled and hammered steel. The two central needles 7.25" long each of four laminations, 0.
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. Card-Mica covered with paper, blue with black and blue markings, graduated to 1/4 points and quadrantally in degrees. Needle- Four light bar edge needles, composed of two laminations of rolled clock spring steel, 2 x 7" and 2 x 5" long and 0.5
1840
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. Card-Mica covered with paper, blue with black and blue markings, graduated to 1/4 points, about 1" from edge is a circle of degree graduations with two rows of figures 0-90 quadrantally and 0-360. Needle- Four light bar edge needles, composed of t
1840
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. Card-Mica covered with paper, blue with black and white markings, graduated to 1/4 points and quadrantally in degrees. Needle- Four light bar edge needles, composed of two laminations of rolled clock spring steel, 2 x 7" and 2 x 5" long and 0.
1840
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. Card-Mica covered with paper, blue with black and white markings, graduated to 1/4 points and quadrantally in degrees. Needle- Four light bar edge needles, composed of two laminations of rolled clock spring steel, 2 x 7.25" and 2 x 5" long and
1840
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. Card-Mica covered with paper, white with black and white markings, graduated to 1/4 points and quadrantally in degrees. Needle- Four light bar edge needles, composed of two laminations of rolled clock spring steel, 2 x 7.25" and 2 x 5.25" long
1840
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. Dry card compass
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. hold
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. Inboard profile plan
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. Inboard profile plan
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. Inboard profile plan
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. Inboard profile plan
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. lines & profile
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. Lower deck plan
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. Lower deck plan
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. Lower deck plan
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. Lower deck plan
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. Musket. The stock, possibly made of walnut, is fitted with a brass butt plate, trigger guard, sideplate, fore-end cap and ramrod holder. Two iron sling loops are also fitted - one at the fore-end of the barrel and the other in front of the trigger guard
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. profile
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. sail
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. Scabbard for a solid half-basket hilted sword, which belonged to Commodore Sir Robert Oliver (died 1848). The black leather scabbard has two gilt lockets, rings and chape. The mounts are ornamented with lines and scrolls, and in addition the chape is al
1840
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. Solid half-basket hilted sword, which belonged to Commodore Sir Robert Oliver (died 1848). The hilt of the sword consists of a gilt solid half-basket guard with raised bars and a crown and anchor badge. The sword has a lion's-head pommel and back-p
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. Upper deck plan
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. Upper deck plan
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. Upper deck plan
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Admiral George Brydges Rodney, Baron Rodney. G B Rodney. Print
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Beached trading vessels and fishermen with a block and tackle in the foreground, Swansea. Calvert Jones was the cousin of William Henry Fox Talbot and is now best known as a pioneer of early photography. In the 1840s he produced an important series of cal
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British & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Obverse: Draped bust of Thomas Clarkson facing right. Legend: ‘THOMAS CLARKSON’. Reverse: An African slave kneeling, his manacled hands raised. Legend below: ‘AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER&rsquo
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Brunswick Pattern 1840. Naval rifle. Brass butt plate with tongue on top, fitted with a brass covered butt box with a semi-circular end (hinged) secured at the back by a steel spring. Plain brass trigger guard with brass spur behind. Two brass ramrod pipe
1840
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Burnham Thorpe. The church at Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, of which Nelson's father was Rector and where he himself was baptized.
1840
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Butter dish lid. A lid from butter dish used on board the paddle steamer 'Precursor'. One of a pair of Sheffield plate butter dish lids, each surmounted by a hallmarked silver model of a sitting cow. The fluted lid is engraved on one side wih a
1840
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Canopus (1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline for Canopus (1798), a captured French Third Rate, as taken off at Plymouth Dockyard per Admiralty Order dated 25 January 1839. Note that at one time this was attached to ZAZ
27 April 1840
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Canopus (1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck for Canopus (1798), a captured French Third Rate, fitted as a 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker. The plan illustrates her as taken off at Plymouth per Admiralty Order dated 25 January 1839.
April 1840
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Canopus (1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck with for and aft platforms for Canopus (1798), a captured French Third Rate, fitted as a 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker. The plan illustrates her as taken off at Plymouth per Admiralty Order dated 25
April 1840
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Canopus (1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for Canopus (1798), a captured French Third Rate, fitted as a 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker. The plan illustrates her as taken off at Plymouth per Admiralty Order dated 25 January 18
April 1840
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Canopus (1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the roundhouse (poop) for Canopus (1798), a captured French Third Rate, fitted as a 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker. The plan illustrates her as taken off at Plymouth per Admiralty Order dated 25 January 1839.
April 1840
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Canopus (1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the sheer lines with inboard detail, and a superimposed longitudinal half-breadth for Canopus (1798), a captured French Third Rate, as taken off at Plymouth Dockyard per Admiralty Order dated 25 January 1839.
27 April 1840
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Canopus (1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Canopus (1798), a captured French Third Rate, fitted as a 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker. The plan illustrates her as taken off at Plymouth per Admiralty Order dated 25 January 1839.
April 1840
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CARTE des explorations executees PAR LES CORVETTES L'ASTROLABE ET LA ZELEE DANS LES REGIONS CIRCUM-POLAIRES Levee et Dressee par Mr Vincendon-Dumoulin, Ingeieur Hydrographe de la Marine a bord de la Corvette l'Astrolabe et assujettie aux observa
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Celestial inflatable globe. Celestial inflatable globe. Astronomical details on the sphere include stars connected by lines, but there are no constellation figures. There is a labelled magnitude table above the title cartouche. The stars are marked by the
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Celestial inflatable globe. Celestial inflatable globe. Stars are connected by lines, but there are no constellation figures. There is a labelled magnitude table above the title cartouche. The stars are marked by their Bayer notation. The Milky Way is lab
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Celestial inflatable globe. Drum-shaped box for the celestial inflatable globe; lid is printed in blue, indicating the maker and the place made.
1840
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Celestial inflatable globe. Semi-circular quadrant arm for inflatable globe ring supports
1840
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Celestial inflatable globe. Semi-circular quadrant arm for inflatable globe ring supports
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Celestial inflatable globe. Stand base for celestial inflatable globe.
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Celestial inflatable globe. Stand pillar for celestial inflatable globe stand.
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Celestial inflatable globe. Wooden horizon circle for the celestial inflatable globe; painted red and green.
1840
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Celestial inflatable globe. Wooden meridian ring for the celestial inflatable globe; painted red and green.
1840
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Counter commemorating the translation of the body of Napoleon I, 1840. Counter commemorating the translation of the body of Napoleon I, 1840. Obverse: Small head of the Emperor, laureate (right). Legend: 'NAPOLEON EMPEREUR'. Exergue: 'JE D
1840
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Crescent (1810). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile to waterline, and spar deck (quarterdeck, covered waist, and forecastle) for Crescent (1810), a 38-gun Fifth Rate, Frigate, fitted at Sheerness as a depot ship for freed slaved at Rio de Jane
21 April 1840
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Crescent (1810). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the main deck (upper deck) for Crescent (1810), a 38-gun Fifth Rate, Frigate, fitted at Sheerness as a depot ship for freed slaved at Rio de Janeiro. Signed by James Atkins [Master Shipwright, Sheerness Dockyar
21 April 1840
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Dummy book. Dummy book made from wood of the ship of the line HMS 'Royal George', which sank at Spithead in 1782. It is inscribed in gilt letters: 'PART of the WRECK RECOVERED by Colonel Pasley 1840'.
1840
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E. Hawke. Engraved for the Naval & Military Almanac 1840. Technique includes stipple engraving.
1840
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Edwd Codrington. Engraved for the Naval & Military Almamac 1840. Print
1840
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Exmouth. Engraved for the Naval & Military Almanac 1840. Print
1840
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Frigates off the Mewstone, Plymouth, c.1840. Medium includes graphite.; Signed by artist and dated.
1840
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From a daguerrotype picture by the Polytechnic Institution. A View of Her Majesty's Iron Steam Vessel Albert Capn H.D. Trotter as she appeared in Deptford Dock Yard previous to her sailing for the Niger, fitted with Capn. G. Smith's Paddle Box S
1840
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G B Rodney. Engraved for the Naval & Military Almanac 1840. Technique includes stipple engraving.
1840
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Georgetown, Demerara The Barque Caesar Captn Frans Sims, entering the Harbour, September 1839. Hand-coloured.
1840
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Hill. Engraved for the Naval & Military Almanac 1840. Print
1840
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HMS 'Pearl' capturing the 'Vengador'. 'HMS ''Pearl'' capturing the ''Vengador''.
1840
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HMS Donegal. Technique includes scratching out.
1840
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Iron Steamer Rainbow. original art: drawing
1840
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J Byng. Engraved for the Naval & Military Almanac 1840. Print
1840
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Medal commemorating the translation of the body of Napoleon from St Helena to Les Invalides, 1840. Medal commemorating the translation of the body of Napoleon from St Helena to Les Invalides, 1840. Obverse: Head of the Emperor Napoleon I, laureate (left).
1840
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Medal commemorating the translation of the body of Napoleon to Rouen. Medal commemorating the translation of the body of Napoleon to Rouen, 1840. Obverse: Head of the Emperor Napoleon, laureate and draped, on a cushion (left). Legend: 'SAINTE H&Eacu
1840
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