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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A model of an imaginary scene of Deptford in the second half of the eighteenth century made in wood and various other materials and painted in realistic colours. The model has an approximately square layout and can be viewed from all four sides. A number of buildings are shown including a grey stone Georgian building with tall arched windows, timber-framed vernacular buildings, and red brick buildings with sash windows. A section of foreshore is shown with a cutter moored alongside a quayside wall. The cutter is rigged with set sails and the hull is partly painted white, black and red. It is shown being supplied with provisions. A gig is shown on the water with five Naval officers aboard. A transom-sterned boat is shown under construction on a slipway. Other details depicted in the model include a working pitsaw, smithery, horse-drawn cart loaded with logs, and a wall-mounted quayside crane. A number of figures are depicted.
CA: BCC.
caption: Deptford Dockyard diarama hoy vessel and cutter
caption: Deptford Dockyard diarama street view
caption: Deptford Dockyard diarama general view of slipway and cutter
caption: Deptford Dockyard diarama slipway and stern of cutter and blacksmiths
caption: Topographic model of a scene based on Deptford dockyard | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | topographic models Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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