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anonymous

Fragment of a Ship Flag

England, 1606 - 1700

Object data

wool

height 402 cm × width 425 cm

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-1889-83-11

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

The left half of a ship flag, 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. 115; T. Wilson, Flags at Sea, London 1986, pl. II, fig. 12

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Fragment of a Ship Flag, England, 1606 - 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.245331

(accessed 24 November 2024 00:05:04).

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