The HMS Frigate Unicorn is almost 200 year old!
"HMS Unicorn is considered to be the best preserved of all historic wooden ships in the world from her era.
She is now the World’s last intact warship from the days of sail, one of
the six oldest ships in the world and Scotland’s only representative of
the sailing navy."
http://www.frigateunicorn.org
This is a fascinating ship to visit and I've been lucky to have been shown all over, even where visitors don't get to go. There are still initials and names of the original shipwrights in some places.
Ships of this era carried with them small animals to provide fresh food on long journeys. These would include pigs, sheep, goats and chickens. The Unicorn management team wanted to inform the public by putting animals, a large stove and hurdles on the ship. I was commissioned to paint some life sized animals in the same style as the painted sailors already on the ship.
It was a great deal of work but enjoyable, so here they are.
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