Object data
wool
height 447 cm × width 366 cm
anonymous
Fragment of a Ship Flag
England, c. 1665
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889
Object number: NG-MC-1889-83-8
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Fragment of a ship flag, almost the entire hoist half, bearing a red cross (St George’s cross) on a white background with a double border of red and white checks.
This is a ‘Guinea Jack’ of the Royal Africa Company. It is thought to have been captured by Lieutenant Admiral Michiel Adriaensz de Ruyter (1607-1676) off the coast of West Africa in 1665.
Literature
M. van den Brandhof, Vlaggen, vaandels en standaarden van het Rijksmuseum. Een geïllustreerde catalogus, Amsterdam 1977, no. 112; T. Wilson, Flags at Sea, London 1986, p. 36, figs. 37-38; G. van der Ham, Tarnished Gold: The Netherlands and Ghana, 1593-1872 (Dof goud. Ghana en Nederland sinds 1593), Amsterdam 2016, pp. 72-81
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Fragment of a Ship Flag, England, c. 1665', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245328
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