Object data
wool
height 327 cm × width 455 cm
anonymous
Fragment of a Ship Flag
England, c. 1606 - c. 1700
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 28 December 2024 00:33:12).