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!
The Embarkation (caricature). Print. This is one of four illustrations by Scott for his account of 'The Five Days Peregrination', a journal of a trip to Kent made with Hogarth, Thornhill, and others in 1732 but only published in 1782.
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27 Nov 1781
National Maritime Museum
Labour in vain or let them tug & be Da-nd (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Text in English below image.
27 Nov 1782
National Maritime Museum
A View of the Table Mountain and Cape Town, at the Cape of Good Hope. Hand-coloured.
27 Nov 1787
National Maritime Museum
Lord Nelson, K.B. Duke of Bronte, &c. Slain in the hour of Victory, off Trafalgar, Oct. 21. 1805. From an original Painting by Abbott in the Possession of Will. Locker Esqr Lieut Govr. of Greenwich Hospl. Stipple engraving.
27 Nov 1805
National Maritime Museum
The Continental Dock-yard (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Plate 229.
27 Nov 1807
National Maritime Museum
The Continental Dock-yard (caricature). Hand-coloured.; Plate Part 8.
27 Nov 1807
National Maritime Museum
Etchings... No.1, containing scenery on the River Thames. Rowing boat with shipped oars drawn up on a shore with other vessels and landscape beyond. Bound with PAF5129-PAF5135.; Signed by artist.
27 Nov 1809
National Maritime Museum
Sixteen Views of Places in the Persian Gulph... Forces... Against the Arabian Pirates No 12. The Attack on the Fort of Luft, Novr 27th 1809. Print
Apr 1813
National Maritime Museum
Thames Scene: rowing boat on shore with landscape beyond. Bound with PAF5128, PAF5130-PAF5135.; Signed by artist.
27 Nov 1809
National Maritime Museum
Thames Scene: small rowing boat covered with a tarpaulin. Bound with PAF5128-PAF5129, PAF5131-PAF5135.; Signed by artist.
27 Nov 1809
National Maritime Museum
Plate I Baltic The English & French Fleets in the Baltic, 1854. English Fleet entering the Great Belt March 24th 1854. Hand-coloured.; Title also in French.
27 Nov 1854
National Maritime Museum