This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
A two-decker at Naples. Ship portrait. Oil painting by A. de Simone, showing a Royal Naval two-decker of at least 90 guns making sail southward from the Bay of Naples. Another British two-decker is following, possibly under a Vice-Admiral of the Blue (si
1862
National Maritime Museum
HMS James Watt. A port-broadside view of the James Watt stationary in Naples Bay. In the foreground on the right are three men rowing in a boat. Buildings can be seen in the left background with two ships in front of them. In the right background can be s
1862
National Maritime Museum
Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, 1849. A composition in which the artist has incorporated recognizable features at Dover, about 1849, with imaginary narrative. The painting falls into two parts with a brig shown on the left amidst dark clouds and a stormy sea. I
1862
National Maritime Museum