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anonymous

Half Model of a 90-Gun Ship of the Line

Netherlands, c. 1804

Object data

wood and paint

height 38 cm × width 132 cm × depth 15 cm

Inscriptions

  • inscription, top centre, on a square black metal label: ROTTERDAM
  • label, bottom right: 280 former inventory label

Conservation

  • Ab Hoving, August 2010: minor repairs; retouched; revarnished

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-280-2

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-five gun ports are indicated by white frames in three tiers. The forecastle and quarterdeck are outlined by ribbands with square hances. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends. Two wales and a sheer rail are indicated, all are painted black. The bow features an empty beakhead, a beakhead bulkhead, part of a beakhead platform 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 slightly S-bottomed and is painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

Although Obreen mentions only one model number 280,1 two have been found: this one and model NG-MC-280-1. The waterline on this model appears to be much lower than on model NG-MC-280-1 and the stepping of the masts differs. The ship of the line De Ruyter, 195 feet long, was built by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam from 1804 to 1806. The ship was renamed Piet Hein, Rotterdam, Hollandais and finally Koninklijke Hollander before it was broken up in 1819.2

Scale (derived) approx. 1:55.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 280; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 3

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 90-Gun Ship of the Line, Netherlands, c. 1804', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244091

(accessed 23 November 2024 17:59:47).

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