#royal museums greenwich

[without-ado]

Astronomy Photographer of the Year

l all via Royal Museums Greenwich l 2024

[jamesfitzjamesdotcom]

Cutty Sark (1869)

Visiting the Cutty Sark and thinking about big lad James Fitzjames and how he probably had to duck his head all the time on ships. It all seems to be made for somebody of my height (1.62 m).

[lindahall]

George Gabb – Scientist of the Day

George Hugh Gabb, a British collector of scientific instruments, is a mystery man. 

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[nothwell]

UK folks pls help

what is the best way to actually get an answer to a research question from the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich

they have ignored my emails for months

i would go in person but i'm on the wrong side of the ocean

[sebastianravkin]

Scottish Broadsword

LOCATION Royal Museums Greenwich

NUMBER WPN1195

MADE BY Unknown

ORIGINAL PRODUCTION DATE circa 1800

MEASUREMENTS

120 x 965 x 140 mm (sword)

20 mm x 808 mm x 45 mm (scabbard)

Scottish broadsword with a straight, double-edged, steel blade. The arms of the City of Mecklenburg in Germany are engraved on the tang on the reverse of the blade. 

Sword belonged to Rear-Admiral L.R. Oliphant.  The broadsword was given to Rear-Admiral L.R. Oliphant by a relative of John Scott, who was Secretary to Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) and was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar.

[historysurvivalguide]

Round Sundail

The time can be found either by marking the edge of the shadow of the globe in the hour-circle, or by turning the semi-annular ring until it casts no shadow, at which point it will be over the correct time

[the-holy-ghosted]

i am normal and can be asked about the relic of the lost franklin expedition's known as the peglar papers. i am fine and can be asked about it no i will not cry (starts fucking BAWLING)

[hiraethy]

a day at the national maritime museum, greenwich ⚓

[sometimeslondon]

The Queen's House, Greenwhich

[acheronist]

went to google smth and then firefox said

like please this is so embarrassing. literally just the henry peglar wallet page scans and the can of franklin expedition mystery meat

[worstjourney]

Had a great time walking members of @royalmuseumsgreenwich through the historical uses of drawing and the basic principles by which anyone can become a sketcher. If you can write, you can draw!

[an-act-of-hubris]

[jamesfitzjamesdotcom]

HMS Cornwallis model

This contemporary ship model of HMS Cornwallis is located in the All Hands children's gallery at the National Maritime Museum Greenwich. I missed it the other times I went because I didn't think to look there.

Fitzjames served on the Cornwallis from 1841-1843 during the First Opium War in China. This ship model was made from the same wood that was used for the actual ship and made by the shipbuilder himself in 1813.

[Pictures by me]

[ancestorsalive]

Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin is a 1745 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth. A conversational picture, it shows Captain Lord George Graham, of the Royal Navy, in the cabin of his ship with several people. The painting was probably commissioned by Graham to commemorate a naval battle he had fought recently. While commanding a 24-gun sixth rate, he had been one of three British ships to attack a squadron of three powerful French privateers and their prizes. The British were successful in their engagement, capturing all of the prizes, and all but one of the privateers. Lauded for his achievements, Graham was given another, larger, ship to command. The painting is probably set aboard this new command, the 60-gun HMS Nottingham, and shows Graham relaxing in the great cabin before a meal, smoking a pipe. With him are the ship's chaplain and clerk, who sing and listen to music played by a black servant. A steward brings a roast duck to the table. Two dogs are also present in the scene, one joins in the singing, the other wears a wig and reads a sheet of music.

The scene contains elements of satire and symbolism, in common with Hogarth's other works. The relaxed scene contrasts the tension of the naval battle it commemorates, with elements of humour including the officious pose and behaviour of one of the dogs, who apes Graham's official position. The steward looks out of the painting at the viewer with a smile, while obliviously tipping gravy down the chaplain's back. The positioning and depiction of Graham and the black servant invite comparisons, with Hogarth's presentation of black subjects in paintings being studied by later academics. Hogarth drew from his own experience in group portraits, and was probably influenced by an earlier cabin work by Bartolomeo Nazari. Graham's enjoyment of the painting was short-lived, he died in 1747. His family kept the portrait in their collections until 1932, when it was sold to Sir James Caird, who subsequently donated it to the National Maritime Museum, where it remains.

(via Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin - Wikipedia)

[petoskeystones]

at the royal museum greenwich online collections again

[the-golden-vanity]

Recovering the Queer History of Britain's Navy in the Age of Sail by Seth Stein LeJacq for Royal Museums Greenwich

@rulebaetannia sent me this lecture because they thought I'd appreciate it. They were right.