Object data
wood and paint
height 33.7 cm × width 125.1 cm × depth 14.5 cm
anonymous
Half Model of a 32-Gun Frigate
Netherlands, c. 1797
Inscriptions
- inscription, top centre, on an oval black label: 2 / IUNO. 32 St: / GB: 1797
- label, top centre: paper scale in Amsterdam feet
- label, bottom right: 312 former inventory label
Scientific examination and reports
- dendrochronology: Marta Domínguez Delmás & Rosa Ana Vázquez Ruiz de Ocenda, University of Santiago de Compostela, F0160011, 26 September 2016
Literature scientific examination and reports
Marta Domínguez Delmás & Rosa Ana Vázquez Ruiz de Ocenda; Dendrochronological research on ship models NG-MC-312, NG-MC-315, NG-MC-317, NG-NM-88 (2016)
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-312
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.
Two 32-gun frigates, measuring 145 feet in length, were built according to this design: Juno and Phoenix. Both were constructed by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam in 1797.1 Juno was stranded near Amboina in 1803; Phoenix was burned by the British in 1806.2
Scale (on model) approx. 1:40.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 312
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 32-Gun Frigate, Netherlands, c. 1797', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053626
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