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Description: | Scale:1:12. A contemporary professionally made wooden model of a Thames Peter boat. The hull is built plank on frame and is finished in a dark brown/black colour with the gunwale and toerail painted a light blue. It is complete with an unrigged mast, sprit and sail rolled around them.
It was received missing its original rudder and related fittings, and fish-well cover, and with some damage to deck and coaming. The model represents the decked, larger type of Peter boat of about 26 feet in length, used from the Pool of London down to the Thames estuary and particularly associated with the Greenwich fishery. None of these once common craft survive and this is the only known contemporary model of one. It is also the only known surviving boat model from the substantial studio collection of Clarkson Stanfield RA (1793-1867), in whose marine work they figure, as well as that of Turner and many other 18th- and 19th-century artists: (Bagshawe Collection, acq. 9.04). [PvdM]
caption: Thames Peter boat - port
caption: Thames Peter boat - starboard broadside
caption: Thames Peter boat - stern quarter
caption: Thames Peter boat - three quarter bow
caption: Thames Peter boat - three quarter bow with sail furled
caption: Thames Peter boat - three quarter bow with sail set
caption: Thames Peter boat - plan view deck and internal
caption: Thames Peter boat - plan view underside planking
caption: Thames Peter boat - bow view dead ahead
caption: Thames Peter boat - dead astern
caption: Thames Peter boat - plan view of sail | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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