prison art / Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815

French Prisoner of War model ship. unnamed 60 gunner. Three-masted war ship of bone and wood. Prisoner art, early 19th century, period of the Napoleonic Wars. Note in archive file AI/012/002 states: 'Model of three-master of French type made of bone belonging to a class usually ascribed to French prisoners of war and made in the early years of the 19th century, the present example said to have come from Mayo'. Ship model, bone, full rigged three-masted brig. Secured brass nails. Masts of bone and wood. Early 19th century.;