Historical Collections Online
Search our Historical Collections Online, a sample of 10,000 artefacts from the National Museum of Ireland’s Historical, Military and Easter Week Collections, published as part of the Decade of Commemorations.
prison art / Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815
French Prisoner of War model ship; early 19th century, period of the Napoleonic Wars. 1803-1815. 'Hero', 58 gunner, prisoner art of beef bone and wood. Three-masted war ship. Set standing on a carved bone stand, decorated with fish and sea gods etc. Model, bone. Man-of War, made by French...