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Description: | Three-quarter length polychrome-painted female figurehead of HMS 'Atalanta', a 16-gun wooden brig built at Pembroke Dock in 1847. It represents Atalanta, the Arcadian huntress of Greek mythology in a classical-style dress with the left breast shown bare. The arms are missing from the elbow. The ship was laid up at Devonport on completion and only commissioned for the North Atlantic and West Indies Station in 1856. Thereafter it returned to the reserve at Devonport and was broken up there in 1868. It was transferred by the Admiralty to the NMM in 1936 from the Rigging House at Devonport Dockyard.
Finish: oil paint (polychrome). It consists of two parts; FHD0062.1 and FHD0062.2: (B&W neg. no. 1961).
20 July 2012: This Figurehead no longer has parts, since they have been reattached and properly conserved. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Subjects: | Atalanta 1847 (HMS) figureheads | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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