Ship of the line "Mars"
about 1800–15
Object PlaceEngland
Medium/TechniqueBoxwood
Credit LineGift of John Templeman Coolidge
Accession number32.140
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Ship models are usually rigged with threads of linen, cotton, or silk, but this model of "L'Mars"-a 132-gun ship of the line-was rigged with finely spun wool. The wool was coated with a drying oil and pine resin containing traces of copper and brass.
ProvenanceJ. Templeman Coolidge, by 1 December 1927, to the MFA in 1932.
about 1730
about 1810 (rigging about 1840)
about 1775–1800
about 1843
About 1715–19
about 1780
About 1780–90
1836
about 1740
