Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman (Previously Identified as Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal 1732-1811) Frame:White forged nations

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Seashaken Houses is a lyrical exploration of lighthouses and the people who risked their lives building and rebuilding them

It's fascinating to think that the historic site of Stonehenge did not exist when the Comet NEOWISE last passed the Earth

Includes a giant world map poster

This iconic vessel

Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman (Previously Identified as Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal 1732-1811) Frame:White forged nationsAlthough acquired as a portrait of Nevil Maskelyne, fifth Astronomer Royal at Greenwich (1765 1811), the late Derek Howse, former Head of Astronomy at NMM and Maskelyne's biographer, firmly believed that this portrait is misidentified on the basis of its great dissimilarity to Louis van der Puyl's undoubted Maskelyne portrait of 1785 owned by the Royal Society. Van der Puyl shows him in clerical dress (black with bands) appropriate to his formal