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Book Prisoner of War   Bone Ship Models

Download or read book Prisoner of War Bone Ship Models written by Manfred Stein and published by Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 1792-1815, the period of the Coalition Wars and the Napoleonic Wars between France and Europe, prisoners were taken on both sides. The majority of them were confined, sometimes for many years, in England and Scotland. Some of the prisoners built ship models from scraps of wood or mutton and beef bones. Rigging was made of silk or whatever other fine material could be obtained. The prisoners developed an art form and the models were sold to the public through the guards. This trade enabled the prisoner to acquire ivory and special tools to make the models all the more decorative. The remain highly sought after and valuable collectors' items to this day. This book shows the beauty of the models selected as the finest in the Peter Tamm Collection in the International Maritime Museum of Hamburg.

Book Prisoner of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Manfred Stein
  • Publisher : Maximilian Verlag
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9783782212052
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Prisoner of War written by Manfred Stein and published by Maximilian Verlag. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 1792-1815, the period of the Coalition Wars and the Napoleonic Wars between France and Europe, prisoners were taken on both sides. The majority of them were confined, sometimes for many years, in England and Scotland. Some of the prisoners built ship models from scraps of wood or mutton and beef bones. Rigging was made of silk or whatever other fine material could be obtained. The prisoners developed an art form and the models were sold to the public through the guards. This trade enabled the prisoner to acquire ivory and special tools to make the models all the more decorative. The remain highly sought after and valuable collectors' items to this day. This book shows the beauty of the models selected as the finest in the Peter Tamm Collection in the International Maritime Museum of Hamburg.

Book Prisoner of war Ship Models  1775 1825

Download or read book Prisoner of war Ship Models 1775 1825 written by Ewart C. Freeston and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sea Narratives  Cultural Responses to the Sea  1600   Present

Download or read book Sea Narratives Cultural Responses to the Sea 1600 Present written by Charlotte Mathieson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600-Present explores the relationship between the sea and culture from the early modern period to the present. The collection uses the concept of the ‘sea narrative’ as a lens through which to consider the multiple ways in which the sea has shaped, challenged, and expanded modes of cultural representation to produce varied, contested and provocative chronicles of the sea across a variety of cultural forms within diverse socio-cultural moments. Sea Narratives provides a unique perspective on the relationship between the sea and cultural production: it reveals the sea to be more than simply a source of creative inspiration, instead showing how the sea has had a demonstrable effect on new modes and forms of narration across the cultural sphere, and in turn, how these forms have been essential in shaping socio-cultural understandings of the sea. The result is an incisive exploration of the sea’s force as a cultural presence.

Book The Mariner s Mirror

Download or read book The Mariner s Mirror written by Leonard George Carr Laughton and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Description of a Few Old Surviving Ship models

Download or read book Description of a Few Old Surviving Ship models written by Harry Parker and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Ship Models and How to Build Them

Download or read book American Ship Models and How to Build Them written by V. R. Grimwood and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-06-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy-to-learn techniques, arranged in order of difficulty, range from relatively simple models to complicated square-riggers. Starting with the construction of a half-hull ship model, the book advances to a whole-hull model and replicas of twelve vessels, with separate chapters on rigging, gear and furniture, and tools and materials.

Book The Illustrated London News

Download or read book The Illustrated London News written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Guant  namo Artwork and Testimony of Moath Al Alwi

Download or read book The Guant namo Artwork and Testimony of Moath Al Alwi written by Alexandra S. Moore and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deaf Walls Speak presents an insider’s view of artmaking in Guantánamo, the world’s most notorious prison, as self-expression and protest, and to stage a fundamental human rights claim that has been denied by law and politics: the right to be recognized as human. The book juxtaposes detainee artist Moath al-Alwi’s testimony and artwork with essays that situate his work within legal, political, aesthetic, and material contexts to demonstrate that artwork at Guantánamo constitutes important forms of material witnessing to human rights abuses perpetrated and denied by the U.S. government.

Book Hell Upon Water

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  • Author : Paul Chamberlain
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2016-09-14
  • ISBN : 0750980532
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Hell Upon Water written by Paul Chamberlain and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, over 200,000 prisoners of war of many nationalities were brought to Britain to be held in the infamous prison hulks, land prisons and parole depots. Many prisoners languished in captivity for over eleven years. This book tells the story of these men and women. Hell Upon Water examines how prisoners of war were acquired by the British, how they were fed, clothed and accommodated by the Transport Board of the Admiralty. The larger prisons such as Dartmoor, Portchester Castle and Norman Cross are described in detail, alongside the smaller lesser known depots of Forton, Stapleton, and Mill Bay. It compares the treatment of French prisoners with that of Britons in France, and also tells the stories of officers who fell in love with local girls and married, and those who fought to escape.

Book Description of a Few Old Surving Ship models

Download or read book Description of a Few Old Surving Ship models written by Parker Gallery (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Ship Models

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  • Author : Arnold Kriegstein
  • Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
  • Release : 2021-06-30
  • ISBN : 1399009788
  • Pages : 986 pages

Download or read book Historic Ship Models written by Arnold Kriegstein and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In terms of quality, historical significance and sheer numbers, the Kriegstein family’s ship model collection in the United States is the finest in private hands anywhere in the world. Principally made up of official 17th- and 18th-century models in the Admiralty or Navy Board style, the collection is unrivalled by any museum outside the British national collection at Greenwich. As the models are not on public display, this book fills the need for a detailed catalogue and visual reference with superb colour photos of all the models, both overall portraits and multiple close-ups. Apart from lengthy descriptions of these magnificent artefacts, space is devoted to how they were identified, and the valuable research done by Arnold and Henry Kriegstein, the identical twins whose shared passion brought this all together. Beyond the technicalities of the ships, the story has a human dimension in the brothers’ adventures in pursuit of every model and their dogged determination to secure them against official obstruction and dubious antiques-trade practices. This is an entirely new and revised edition of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Ship Models first published in 2007, now expanded to include the additions to the collection since that date.

Book International Art Market and Art   Auctions

Download or read book International Art Market and Art Auctions written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gathering the Bones

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  • Author : Dennis Etchison
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2003-08-16
  • ISBN : 0765301792
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Gathering the Bones written by Dennis Etchison and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-08-16 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an anthology of thirty-four horror tales from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia.

Book Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War

Download or read book Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War written by Gilly Carr and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the numerous examples of creativity produced by POWs and civilian internees during their captivity, including: paintings, cartoons, craftwork, needlework, acting, musical compositions, magazine and newspaper articles, wood carving, and recycled Red Cross tins turned into plates, mugs and makeshift stoves, all which have previously received little attention. The authors of this volume show the wide potential of such items to inform us about the daily life and struggle for survival behind barbed wire. Previously dismissed as items which could only serve to illustrate POW memoirs and diaries, this book argues for a central role of all items of creativity in helping us to understand the true experience of life in captivity. The international authors draw upon a rich seam of material from their own case studies of POW and civilian internment camps across the world, to offer a range of interpretations of this diverse and extraordinary material.

Book From Carrack to Clipper

Download or read book From Carrack to Clipper written by Frank Charles Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Navy Board Ship Models

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  • Author : Nick Ball
  • Publisher : Pen and Sword
  • Release : 2018-07-30
  • ISBN : 1526701138
  • Pages : 526 pages

Download or read book Navy Board Ship Models written by Nick Ball and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated history of the early ship models of the Royal Navy that are prized today as works of art. From about the middle of the seventeenth century, the Royal Navy’s administrators began to commission models of their ships that were accurately detailed and, for the first time, systematically to scale. These developed a recognized style, which included features like the unplanked lower hull with a simplified pattern of framing that emphasized the shape of the underwater body. Exquisitely crafted, these were always rare and highly prized objects—indeed, Samuel Pepys expressed a profound desire to own one, and today they are widely regarded as the acme of the ship modeler’s art. Today, examples are the highlights of collections across the world, valued both as art objects and as potential historical evidence on matters of ship design. However, it was only recently that researchers began to investigate the circumstances of their construction, their function, and the identities of those who made them. This book, by two curators who have worked on the world’s largest collection of these models at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, summarizes the current state of knowledge, outlines important discoveries, and applies this newfound understanding to many of the finest models in the collection. As befits its subject, Navy Board Ship Models is visually striking, with numerous color photographs that make it as attractive as it is informative to anyone with an interest in modelmaking or historic ships.