Object data
wood and paint
height 28.3 cm × width 91.9 cm × depth 12.2 cm
anonymous
Half Model of a 32-Gun Frigate
Netherlands, c. 1796
Inscriptions
- inscription, top centre, on a rectangular black label: EMBUSCADE. 1796
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-310
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
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. Twelve gun ports are indicated by white frames situated on one continuous deck, one gun port is damaged and another is missing. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends. One wale and a sheer rail are indicated. The bow features an empty beakhead and a knighthead. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The model does not have a taffrail or quarter galleries. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder and a keel with a skeg are indicated. The hull is slightly S-bottomed and painted white below the waterline.
The 32-gun frigate Jonge Willem, 140 feet long, was bought from the Dutch East India Company in Rotterdam in 1795 while it was still on the stocks.1 Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) finished building the frigate in 1796, after which it entered service as the Embuscade. Embuscade was captured by the British at the Vlieter in 1799.2
Scale (derived) approx. 1:55.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 310
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 32-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/20053624
(accessed 12 December 2025 06:45:01).