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Description: | The half-length bust (armless) figurehead of HMS 'Harlequin' , a 16-gun brig-sloop built at Pembroke Dock in 1836, which was converted to a coal hulk in 1860 and sold in 1889 to Marshall of Plymouth for breaking.
It represents the masked and capped figure of a harlequin, in traditional multi-coloured dress and with a blue cloak resting on a scroll head. Harlequin (Arlecchino) is a traditional Italian 'commedia dell'arte' figure, best known in Britain as a character in traditional pantomime of the late 18th and early 19th century.
Finish: oil paint (polychrome).
caption: unavailable
caption: Figurehead of HMS Harlequin | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | figure figureheads Treasures of the National Maritime Museum Harlequin 1836 (HMS) human: harlequin | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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