All works in Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum

anonymous

Fragment of a Ship Flag

England, c. 1606 - c. 1700

Object data

wool

height 327 cm × width 455 cm

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889

Object number: NG-MC-1889-83-10

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Fragment of a ship flag, the fly is missing, blue with a red in white cross and white St Andrew’s cross.

This is an English Union flag from the period 1606-1700.

Literature

A.A. Purves, ‘The Functions of the Union Flag’, The Mariner’s Mirror 37 (1951), no. 3, pp. 231-36, p. 235; M. van den Brandhof, Vlaggen, vaandels en standaarden van het Rijksmuseum. Een geïllustreerde catalogus, Amsterdam 1977, no. 114; T. Wilson, Flags at Sea, London 1986, pl. II, fig. 12; J.P. Sigmond and W.T. Kloek, Sea Battles in the Dutch Golden Age, Zwolle 2014, pp. 64-65, fig. 42

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Fragment of a Ship Flag, England, c. 1606 - c. 1700', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245330

(accessed 13 November 2024 05:21:59).

Footnotes