Topographic model; Scenic model

Scale: 1:48. A model of an imaginary scene of Deptford in the second half of the eighteenth century made in wood and various other materials and painted in realistic colours. The model has an approximately square layout and can be viewed from all four sides. A number of buildings are shown including a grey stone Georgian building with tall arched windows, timber-framed vernacular buildings, and red brick buildings with sash windows. A section of foreshore is shown with a cutter moored alongside a quayside wall. The cutter is rigged with set sails and the hull is partly painted white, black and red. It is shown being supplied with provisions. A gig is shown on the water with five Naval officers aboard. A transom-sterned boat is shown under construction on a slipway. Other details depicted in the model include a working pitsaw, smithery, horse-drawn cart loaded with logs, and a wall-mounted quayside crane. A number of figures are depicted.

Object Details

ID: SLR2882
Collection: Ship models
Type: Topographic model; Scenic model
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Lightley, Robert A.
Places: Deptford Dockyard
Date made: circa 1988
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Reproduced with kind permission of Robert Lightley
Measurements: Overall model (approximate): 420 x 820 x 820 mm