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Description: | Painting. [Model of HMS Berwick, bow view]. - [1747]. - Oil on copper, tacked to canvas backcloth; image 56x76cm, copper plate c37x60cm. in gilt frame, 73.5x94x7.5cm. - No inscriptions or title. - Prototype, shown to King George III in 1773, of series of perspective paintings at 45 degree angle of British warship models. - Used to instruct Prince William Henry, later King William IV. - Ship, Establishment design proposed 1733; built Deptford Dockyard; launched 1743; 70 guns 3rd Rate; broken up 1760 Chatham Dockyard | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | oil painting | Temporal: | 1747 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | unattributed | Identifier: | http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grab... | Go to resource |
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