Fragment of a Ship Flag

Spain, 1570 - 1630

Object data

linen

height 340 cm × width 224 cm

Inscriptions

inscription, on the scroll: PLVS VLTRA

Conservation

H.S. Bloedhouwer, 1966: restored

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-1889-83-3

Entry

One half of a ship flag, painted on one side. It shows half of the Spanish Royal Arms surrounded by the chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece; to the fly an Ionic column on a hill, bearing an imperial crown and surrounded by a scroll bearing the inscription. The whole is set in a meander border.

The difference between this coat of arms and those of Charles V and Philips II lies in the Jerusalem cross in the upper right-hand corner. The fragment is almost identical to NG-MC-1889-83-4.

Literature

M. van den Brandhof, Vlaggen, vaandels en standaarden van het Rijksmuseum. Een geïllustreerde catalogus, Amsterdam 1977, no. 107

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Fragment of a Ship Flag, Spain, 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.245323

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