Object data
wood and paint
height 37.3 cm × width 132.7 cm × depth 15.5 cm
anonymous
Half Model of a 68-Gun Ship of the Line
Netherlands, c. 1795
Inscriptions
- inscription, top centre, on a square black metal label: KORTENAAR.1795
- label, bottom right: 268 former inventory label
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, May 2008: minor repairs; retouched
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-268
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the starboard side of a three-masted ship, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard.
The side of the ship is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds. Thirty-three gun ports are indicated by white frames in three tiers. The model does not indicate any details of the forecastle, whereas the quarterdeck is outlined by ribbands with square hances. The sheer rises towards the stern. Two wales and a sheer rail are indicated, all are painted black. The bow features an empty beakhead with two cheeks positioned directly on the beakhead, a beakhead bulkhead and a black knighthead. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The model does not have a taffrail or quarter galleries. It has a straight, square-headed rudder. The hull is round and painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.
The ship of the line Kortenaar was built by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam in 1795 and was 180 feet long.1 Kortenaar was declared unfit and broken up in Surabaya in 1806.
Scale (derived) 1:50.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 268
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 68-Gun Ship of the Line, Netherlands, c. 1795', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053584
(accessed 12 December 2025 06:45:42).