Frigate
about 1740
Object PlaceEngland
Medium/TechniqueWood
Dimensions30.48 cm (12 in.)
Credit LineGift of John Templeman Coolidge
Accession number32.139
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In the seventeenth century, ships were positioned in a line, one behind the other, so that the guns mounted on their sides were most effective in battle. Large, heavily armed warships were known as "ships of the line." Behind this model is an engraved and hand-painted, eighteenth-century view of Portsmouth Harbor, England.
ProvenanceJ. Templeman Coolidge, by 11 March 1921, to the MFA in 1932.about 1780
About 1780–90
1836
about 1810 (rigging about 1840)
about 1730
1881