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Yinka Shonibare's sculpture, Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, created for the fourth plinth. It is a 1/30th replica of Nelson's flagship Victory, on which he died during the battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. The giant wax seal in the neck of the bottle was large enough for the craft workers to crawl through to work on the model. This bottle is the latest in the procession of temporary installations which have made the empty plinth, originally intended to hold a somber bronze general like the others in the square, one of the most popular display spaces in Britain for contemporary art. |