Dockyard model making ceased when war with France came in 1793. A new school of model making grew up among the French prisoners of war to take its place. Housed in squalid English prisons such as Dartmoor and Norman Cross, prisoners worked from memory, not necessarily to scale. They worked in bone left from beef or mutton rations and typically added every bit of tackle he could recall from his time at sea. The result is a class of models that are at once baroque and ghostly.
Dockyard model making ceased when war with France came in 1793. A new school of model making grew up among the French prisoners of war to take its place. Housed in squalid English prisons such as Dartmoor and Norman Cross, prisoners worked from memory, not necessarily to scale. They worked in bone left from beef or mutton rations and typically added every bit of tackle he could recall from his time at sea. The result is a class of models that are at once baroque and ghostly.
Carved bone and brass fragments consisting of lifeboat, cannons, and stern carving, from model in bone of French 3 decker in case
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Dockyard model making ceased when war with France came in 1793. A new school of model making grew up among the French prisoners of war to take its place. Housed in squalid English prisons such as Dartmoor and Norman Cross, prisoners worked from memory, not necessarily to scale. They worked in bone left from beef or mutton rations and typically added every bit of tackle he could recall from his time at sea. The result is a class of models that are at once baroque and ghostly.
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