Nelson s Ship in a Bottle

Nelson's Ship in a Bottle" by Yinka Shonibar

Nelson's Ship in a Bottle" by Yinka Shonibar is a ship of 2.35 metres tall inside an even taller bottle. It's a 1:29 scale replica of Vice Admiral Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory. "Nelson's Ship in a Bottle" appeared on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London on 24 May 2010. The Fourth Plinth stood empty from 1841 until 1999, when the first of an ongoing series of contemporary artworks, commissioned.