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. This is a folding horary quandrant made from northern Italian boxwood. It has scales for degrees, hours and signs of the zodiac. The folding format is very unusual. A plain box opens to reveal a square horary quadrant. This example shows Italian hours a
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National Maritime Museum

A Prospect of Greenwich, Deptford and London from Flamstead Hill in Greenwich Park. A large print in two parts with a numbered key (1 - 42) below identifying churches, hospitals etc. The Queen's House is identified as'The King's House'
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National Maritime Museum

Counter commemorating the galleys escape from the plague at Marseilles. Counter commemorating the galleys escape from the plague at Marseilles. Obverse: Youthful bust of King Louis XV with long curls, in armour (right). 'LUD . XV . REX . CHRISTIANI
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Counter commemorating the opening up of new colonies. Counter commemorating the opening up of new colonies. Obverse: Youthful bust of King Louis XV (right), smaller than preceding. Legend: 'LUD . XV . REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: A laurel spr
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National Maritime Museum

Counter commemorating the opening up of the new colonies. Counter commemorating the opening up of the new colonies. Obverse: Bust of Admiral Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (1678-1737) (right). Legend: 'L . ALEXA . DE BOURBON C . DE TO
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National Maritime Museum

Counter commemorating the opening up of the new colonies. Counter commemorating the opening up of the new colonies. Obverse: Youthful bust of King Louis XV in armour (right). Legend: 'LUD . XV . REX . CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: A laurel sprouti
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National Maritime Museum

Figure studies for the west wall (second project). This is one of the most fluid and conceptual surviving sketches for the Painted Hall and shows Thornhill resolving the arrangement of both royal and allegorical figures on the west wall in a receding serp
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National Maritime Museum

Swedish plate money square. Plate money. Roughly square copper plate. Stamped 'FRS 1723', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815, found in
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Thomas Weston (d. 1728). Thomas Weston was an assistant to the Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, and lived and worked as an indentured servant to him at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, for seven years from February 1699 to February 1706, though he only
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National Maritime Museum