Entries from National Maritime Museum collections blog tagged with 'Thames'
Swanning About on the Thames!
July is not a popular month with swans on the river Thames! Every year in the third week, men take to the river in traditional wooden skiffs, dressed in colourful garb and feather-adorned caps, to track down and pluck from...
Posted by Kristian Martin, Exhibitions Curator on July 21, 2011 10:50 AM
A Forest of Masts: The Image of the River Thames in the 18th Century
In the 17th-century, the visual image of the river Thames was, on the whole, limited to the defining feature of topographical views, the site of carnivalesque frost-fairs or simply the backdrop for pictorial representations of architectural magnificence. By contrast, during...
Posted by Geoff Snell, Doctoral Student on September 14, 2010 8:50 AM
Conducting research at the NMM: Caird Short-term Research Fellowship
In summer 1884 an exhibition of William Wyllie's watercolours of the Thames was held at the Fine Art Society in New Bond Street, London. The writer Grant Allen, in his introductory chapter to the catalogue of the artist's first one-man...
Posted by Jeong-yon Ha, Caird short-term Fellow on September 17, 2009 2:14 PM
The ghost of Christmas PortCities
We've joined The Commons on Flickr, where we're enjoying sharing some of the content from PortCities. PortCities was a NOF funded digitisation project, which ran between 2003 and 2005, so we'd like to wish everyone season's greetings and share this...
Posted by Samantha Oliphant, Digital Content Coordinator on December 17, 2008 3:53 PM
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