Object data
wood, brass and paint
(A): height 3 cm × width 5.7 cm × depth 7.5 cm
(B): height 3 cm × width 5.2 cm × depth 6.5 cm
(C): height 2 cm × width 5.7 cm × depth 5.7 cm
anonymous
Three Models of Mast Caps
Netherlands, c. 1780
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-174
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Three of the five mast caps that were removed from the model of the 40-gun Dutch East Indiaman Vergelijking (NG-MC-658).1 The other two mast caps are lost.
They are all of an eighteenth-century design with a rounded upper side and are all painted black.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 174
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Three Models of Mast Caps, Netherlands, c. 1780', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.243986
(accessed 24 November 2024 07:11:20).