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British Frigate
1790–1810
Object Place: Princetown, Dartmoor Prison, Devonshire, England
Medium/Technique
Other organic; Ivory
Dimensions
41.27 cm (16 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Charles Hitchcock Tyler
Accession Number33.432
ClassificationsModels
This model, and the related, 50-ton frigate displayed nearby probably were made by a prisoner of war in England during the Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815).
ProvenanceSaid to have been made by a French sailor in the prison at Dartmoor, Devonshire, England (after 1806), to Charles Hitchcock Tyler by 1933, to the MFA in 1933.