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Description: | Figurehead of 'H.M.S. Ajax', a 74-gun third rate built for the Navy by Perry's Yard, Blackwall, in 1809. She was converted to an auxiliary screw ship in 1846 and broken up in 1864. The polychrome-painted, bearded male figure is a half-length bust in classical armour and plumed helmet, above a fiddle (backward turning) scroll: the armour is similar to that of FHD0061, made at Plymouth nearly thirty years before, suggesting common forms of source.
Finish: paint (polychrome). (The image shows the figure against a wall that no longer exists at the north end of the NMM's old Neptune Hall, before 1996).
caption: Figurehead of HMS Ajax 1809 - on white background
caption: Figurehead of HMS Ajax c.1809 | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Ajax (1809) figureheads Treasures of the National Maritime Museum The National Maritime Museum - The Collections | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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