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Elder, Alexander P
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Figurehead depicting a woman and child (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a warrior with sword and baton (Drawing)
Design for stern decoration depicting Neptune? and various shapes (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a Turkish man, for the ship Zoroaster (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a huntsman with sheaf of arrows on his back and a dog at his heels (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a winged animal creature with an arrowhead tail (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a princess? with a bird on her hand (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting prehistoric man holding a club (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a lion (Drawing)
Design for a bow decoration depicting a woman and various leaf motifs (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a woman wearing a long dress with her right hand on her heart (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a warrior with a spear, also animal, pyramids and sphynx Delta. Appears to be a variation on PAG3700 (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a woman holding a ball and chain suggesting lightning (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a warrior with a spear, also native, animal, pyramids and sphynx. Appears to be a variation on PAG3703 (Drawing)
Alexander P Elder. Sketchbook. Seventy Drawings - Figureheads, 1855. Photograph portrait of Elder inside front cover dated Oban 1855 (Sketchbook)
Figurehead depicting a woman with her left hand on her chest, for the ship Cingalese (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a royal lady, possibly Queen Victoria, for the ship Melpomene (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a woman holding a fold of her skirt in her right hand, for the ship Argo (Drawing)
Design for stern decoration including a royal coat of arms (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a gentleman wearing a frock coat and with a scroll in his left hand, for the ship Joseph Hume (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a seated angel playing a harp (Drawing)
Design for stern decoration with royal crest, leaves etc (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a sailor holding a staff flying the white ensign Trafalgar (Drawing)
Figurehead depicting a woman in mediaeval dress (Drawing)
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