Female figurehead
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.
Object Details
ID: | FHD0025 |
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Collection: | Figureheads |
Type: | Figurehead |
Display location: | Not on display |
Date made: | 19th century; circa 1855 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Valhalla Collection |
Measurements: | Overall: 1422 mm x 406 mm x 457 mm |
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