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Description: | Scale: 1:480. A model of the Royal Dockyard at Woolwich made entirely in wood with metal and organic material fittings and painted in realistic colours. The entire dockyard is shown together with a section of the River Thames and its foreshore. All the buildings, walls, and gardens have been realistically depicted, as well as the mast pond, slipways, church, drying sheds, smithery, and officers' terrace. Five ships are depicted in various staging of building including one which has only the keel, stem post, and some first futtocks in position, and another vessel depicted ready for launching with three launching flags. The surface of the mast pond is covered with a single sheet of mica. There is a double dry dock which is empty. The model shows how timber is delivered by barge, sorted into various sizes and shapes, shaped, and stacked. The officers' terrace shows the outbuildings, a connecting alleyway, and the gardens beyond. The model has an ivory scale and an ivory compass rose.
The compass is inscribed: "His Majesty's dockyard at Woolwich contains 16 acres rood and 14 poles". Scale inscribed "A scale of 40 feet to an inch". The model is signed on the underside by its model makers.
CA: AAA.
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - overall plan view
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - detail od 3 slipways plan view
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - mast pond and slipway detail
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - 3 slipways and dry dock
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - officers accomodatiom, gargens and dry dock
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - officers terrace and gardens
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - slipway with ship in frame
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - slipway, timber dryimg sheds and anchor wharf
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - timber drying sheds and stable block
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - dry dock, slipway and timber cutting pits
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - terrace and entrance gate
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - cut timber piles, mold loft and ship in frame
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - slipway with keel and floor timbers and frigate ready to launch
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - mast pond and mast houses
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - mast pond and mast making sheds
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - 3 slipways with 3 ships
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - timber sheds and timber seasoning
caption: Woolwich dockyard model
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - stern detail of Surprize in dry dock
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - section at water level
caption: Woolwich dockyard model - overall view at water level
caption: Topographic scenic model of the Royal Dockyard at Woolwich, London (circa 1774). | 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 King George III models (representations) Royal Artillery Institution (Museum of Artillery in the Rotunda) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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