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Description: | Polychrome painted and gilded half-length figurehead of a girl with long, flowing red hair, in a blue dress and holding a golden rose at her breast in her right hand. This example and that of the ?Bernardo? (FHD0053) show a variation on the usual form, in which a figure is designed to sit within a modified billet-bead. Unfortunately nothing is known of the ship from which this comes, though the dress is consistent with a British origin in the mid-1850s.
Finish: oil paint (polychrome) and gilt; figure mounted within the billet head. 'Valhalla' 1984 booklet no. 25 (col. photo) | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Subjects: | figureheads | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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