Object data
wool
height 310 cm × width 205 cm
anonymous, anonymous, anonymous
Fragment of a Ship Flag
? Spain, ? Northern Netherlands, ? Southern Netherlands, 1570 - 1630
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889
Object number: NG-MC-1889-83-2
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Fragment of a white ship flag with a ragged red cross.
This originally Burgundian flag design was used from 1408 or 1411 onwards, originally with a blue cross, but from emperor Charles V’s reign onwards with a red cross and was used on ships from both Spain and its territories.
Literature
C. King, ‘Flags in Marine Art’, The Mariner’s Mirror 22 (1936), no. 2, pp. 133-61, p. 136; M. van den Brandhof, Vlaggen, vaandels en standaarden van het Rijksmuseum. Een geïllustreerde catalogus, Amsterdam 1977, no. 106; T. Wilson, Flags at Sea, London 1986, pp. 54-55
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous or anonymous or anonymous, Fragment of a Ship Flag, 1570 - 1630', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245322
(accessed 5 October 2024 13:20:07).