Lot 56
An exhibition standard admiralty style model of the H.M.S. Resolution of 1667
Charles Aldridge (American, born 1941), completed in 2010 58-1/4 x 22 x 21-1/4 in. (147.9 x 55.8 x 53.9 cm.) cased.
Charles Aldridge (American, born 1941), completed in 2010
5 June 2013, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$7,000 - US$10,000
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An exhibition standard admiralty style model of the H.M.S. Resolution of 1667
Charles Aldridge (American, born 1941), completed in 2010
Charles Aldridge (American, born 1941), completed in 2010
based on the plans drawn by Frank Fox, and built in 1/4 inch to the foot scale in plank on frame construction in pear wood, the hull un-planked, showing the details of the hull framing, and the various decks, with two black waist bands running along the waist, a carved boxwood and gilt figurehead of a lion, gilt head rails, heads, mast posts around the partners, detailed fire hearth made of white holly for the mortar and African blood wood for the bricks, stove pipe, belfry with bell, capstan, companionway, gun ports decorated with carved and gilt wreaths, deck gratings, decorated quarter galleries with bonnets, carved boxwood and gilt transom with lion and unicorn carvings, deck gratings, and other details. Displayed on a pair of gilt dolphin cradles, within a wood framed plexiglass case.
58-1/4 x 22 x 21-1/4 in. (147.9 x 55.8 x 53.9 cm.) cased.
58-1/4 x 22 x 21-1/4 in. (147.9 x 55.8 x 53.9 cm.) cased.
Footnotes
The H.M.S. Resolution was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Harwich Dockyard in 6 December 1667. She was one of only three third rate vessels designed and built by the noted maritime architect Sir Anthony Deane. Resolution served as the flagship in an expedition against the Barbary Corsairs in 1669 and took part in the unsuccessful attack on the Dutch Smyrna convoy, which resulted in the Third Dutch War. She was later girdled, which increased her breadth slightly, and underwent a rebuilding in 1698. In the Great Storm of 1703 in Pevensey Bay, East Sussex she hit the Owers Bank off Littlehampton before the crew could even get up sail, then blown across the Solent, limping on around Beachy Head. With the ship seriously flooded her Captain, Thomas Liell, tried un-successfully to beach her in Pevensey Bay, but the crew had to abandon ship and all made it ashore.