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Ship Models in the Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Paperback / softback Book

Ship Models in the Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario Paperback / softback

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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 clientsclosely 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.

The diverse collection also includes tugs, dredgers, trawlers, cargo vessels, passenger steamers, private yachts, corvettes, battleships, cruisers, torpedo boat destroyers and two aircraft carriers.

The author (curator at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich) considers the rich history and the artistry of model shipbuilding.

New photography captures the incredible workmanship - the carving, casting, gilding and stitching - that such model-making demands.

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