Object data
wood and paint
height 34.3 cm × width 134.2 cm × depth 17.5 cm
anonymous
Half Model of a 44-Gun Frigate
Netherlands, c. 1796
Inscriptions
- inscription, top centre, on an oval black label: 2 / EENDRACHT. 40 St: / Geb: 1796
- scale, top centre: paper scale in Amsterdam feet
- label, bottom right: 309 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-309-2
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. No gun ports are indicated. 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 with two cheeks positioned directly on the beakhead, and a knighthead. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The model does not have a taffrail or galleries. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder is indicated. The hull is slightly S-bottomed and 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 with catalogue number 309,1 two have been found (see model NG-MC-309-1). The 44-gun frigate Eendragt, 169 feet long, was built by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam in 1796. Eendragt was broken up in Batavia in 1804.2
Scale (on model) approx. 1:44.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 309
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 44-Gun Frigate, Netherlands, c. 1796', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053623
(accessed 12 December 2025 08:30:42).