Object data
wood and paint
height 16.6 cm × width 77.5 cm × depth 7.5 cm
anonymous
Half Model of a Tow Yacht
Netherlands, 1750 - 1850
Inscriptions
- label, bottom right: 458 former inventory label
Conservation
- Restauratieatelier Scheepsmodellen, 2009: restored
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-458
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the port side of a flat-bottomed passenger craft, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard.
The side of the vessel is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds, the gunwale is planked. The model has no deck but is detailed with an elongated deckhouse with ten windows. The stern has a square tuck, a hollow counter and a flat transom. A broad rudder is fitted to the sternpost. The sheer rises towards the stern. One wale is indicated, painted black. The hull is flat-bottomed and painted white below the waterline.
Scale unknown.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 458
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a Tow Yacht, Netherlands, 1750 - 1850', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244271
(accessed 23 November 2024 10:25:35).