WOODEN AND PAINTED SHIP MODEL
19TH CENTURY
£500
Auction: 28 October 2015 at 10:00 GMT
Description
a sixteen gun brig, entitled ‘Penguin’
155cm long, 124cm high, 30cm deep
Footnote
Note: this is possibly a model of the 16 gun brig HMS Penguin. Originally the Dutch Komeet, it was captured in 1795 by HMS Unicorn off the coast of Ireland. It was sold in 1809.
Provenance: Torridon House, Home of The Earls of Lovelace. Click here for further information: http://bit.ly/1MmigxQ