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Sailors

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  • Two sailors, one in drag, pose on deck holding props. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Two Marines and a young sailor sitting together on board ship. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Chapel of St. Helena, Jerusalem: naval officers and sailors on a tour. Chromolithograph by H. Clerget and J. Gaildrau after François Edmond Pâris, 1862.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • A sailor from Mallorca, with a pipe in his mouth is carrying a basket with fish in it as he stands on a rock looking out to sea. Etching by D. Juan de la Cruz after D. Antonio Carnicero.
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Catalogue

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    The wounding of Lord Nelson on the deck of HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Engraving, 1814.

    | Date: 1814 | Reference: 548037i
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    Horatio Nelson attacking a Spanish ship before bombarding Cadiz, 1797. Engraving by A. Smith, 1809, after R. Westall.

    Westall, Richard, 1765-1836. | Date: May 1809 | Reference: 646157i
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    Hospital ships, China: sketches showing the interior including the surgery room, with printed text. Wood engraving, 1860.

    | Date: 21 January 1860 | Reference: 20722i
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    Saint Paul shipwrecked on Malta. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1791, after B. West.

    West, Benjamin, 1738-1820. | Date: 1 January 1791 | Reference: 23963i
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    Sailors posing as a couple, one in drag, as they embrace through a window. Photographic postcard, 191-.

    | Date: [between 1910 and 1919?] | Reference: 2043886i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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