Ship Models in the Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario: At the Art Gallery of Ontario

by Simon Stephens

2021-01-08 09:40:01

Spanning some 350 years, the Thomson Collection of historic ship models contains examples of exquisite workmanship and some of the masterpieces of the genre. Pride of the collection are the rare British dockyard models made to scale for affluent 18th... Read more
Spanning some 350 years, the Thomson Collection of historic ship models contains examples of exquisite workmanship and some of the masterpieces of the genre. Pride of the collection are the rare British dockyard models made to scale for affluent 18th-century clients closely associated with the Navy. A large number of models-made from wood and bone, with rigging of human hair-were made by some of the 120,000 French and other prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars.
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File size11 X 9.5 X 0.6 in
Print pages128
PublisherPaul Holberton Publishing
Publication date July 1, 2009
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781903470824

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