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anonymous

Fragment of a Ship Flag

England, c. 1620 - c. 1707

Object data

wool

height 292 cm × width 432 cm

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-1889-83-14

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Large fragment of a red ensign, red with a white canton with a red cross (St George’s cross).

This is an English red ensign from the period 1620-1707.

Literature

W.G. Perrin, ‘British Naval Ensigns’, The Mariner’s Mirror 1 (1911), no. 7, pp. 167-72; M. van den Brandhof, Vlaggen, vaandels en standaarden van het Rijksmuseum. Een geïllustreerde catalogus, Amsterdam 1977, no. 118; T. Wilson, Flags at Sea, London 1986, p. 26, fig. 25a, pl. II, fig. 17

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Fragment of a Ship Flag, England, c. 1620 - c. 1707', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245334

(accessed 10 November 2024 08:39:54).

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