Object data
wood, wax and copper
height 46.8 cm × width 33.5 cm × depth 13 cm
Rijkswerf Vlissingen
Model of a Figurehead
Flushing, c. 1820 - c. 1830
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, March 2009: cleaned; minor repairs; retouched
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-243
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Red wax model of a figurehead on the knee of the head, mounted on a pedestal.
The figurehead represents a running man with a trident in one hand. His crown is missing.
The figure represents Neptune,1 designed for the 84-gun ship of the line Neptunus, 57.8 metres long, built by Cornelis Soetermeer (1782-1842) in Flushing from 1821 to 1835. The ship was renamed Koning der Nederlanden in 1844 and was the last three-decker in the Dutch Navy. From 1858 to 1860 it was converted to a 32-gun floating battery and renamed Neptunus again. The ship was decommissioned in 1876.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 243; J.C.A. Schokkenbroek and C.E. Zonnevylle-Heyning, Kunst op het water. Nederlandse scheepssier 1650-1850, Zutphen 1995
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Model of a Figurehead, Flushing, c. 1820 - c. 1830', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244055
(accessed 23 December 2024 12:50:09).