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!
Board Room of the Admiralty. Print. Plate 3 in volume 1 of Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' ( 3 vols, 1808-11); has extensive accompanying descriptive letterpress in the book.
Published 1 January 1808
National Maritime Museum
Coasting Schooner. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured.See PAD7785 for further information, this probably being from the second set of Atkinson prints mentioned there.
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
Dock at Bristol with a Trader. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured. See PAD7785 for further information, this probably being from the second set of Atkinson prints mentioned there.
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Pensioners. For description, see coloured copy PAD7775. This example is an uncoloured impression on a full untrimmed sheet, sound but in need of cleaning and flattening of old folds.
1 January 1808
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Pensioners. One of a series of prints of seamen and shipping by Atkinson, on which see PAD7785 for further information. One man is sitting on a bench to the left by the corner of a masonry wall, with a crutch leaning on the seat beside him. The
1 January 1808
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Pensioners. Stored in mount with PAD7775, which see, for notes.
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
HMS Caledonia (1808); Warship; 1st rate; 120 guns. Scale: Unknown. A model made in two halves showing two designs for the circular stern for HMS Caledonia (1808), made entirely in wood with metal fittings and painted in realistic colours. The hull, rudder
Unknown
National Maritime Museum
Joseph Cotton F.R.S. Deputy Master of the Trinity House. Print. Joseph Cotton (1746-1825) was appointed Deputy Master of Trinity House in 1803. He served as a Director of the East India Company between 1795 and 1823. For several years he was also the Chai
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
Peter Boats. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured.See PAD7785 for further information, this probably being from the second set of Atkinson prints mentioned there.
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum
Smugglers. Technique includes aquatinting.; Hand-coloured.See PAD7785 for further information, this probably being from the second set of Atkinson prints mentioned there.
1 Jan 1808
National Maritime Museum