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Description: | Wooden figurehead from HMS 'Dee' (1832). It depicts a bearded river god wearing a crown, has been painted with polychrome oil paint and weighs 122 kilograms. The ship was a wooden paddle vessel of 704 tons built at Woolwich Dockyard in 1832. She became a troopship in 1855, a storeship in 1868 and was broken up at Sheerness in 1872.
This object was sighted as being on display during the Collections Inventory Project (2001-2005). It will need to be checked for object numbers and its condition activity updated.
caption: Figurehead of HMS Dee | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | H.M.S. Dee figureheads | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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