Object data
wood, brass, iron, glass, ivory, rope, textile and paint
height 95.2 cm × length 118 cm × width 42.6 cm
anonymous
Model of a 20-Gun Snow
Netherlands, c. 1780
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, June 2011: partially rerigged and retouched
Provenance
...; collection Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1765-1837), Amsterdam, 1807;1 Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1837;2 transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-654
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Polychromed and rigged wooden frame model of a two-masted ship, mounted on a stand.
Parts of the quarterdeck and forecastle can be removed to study the interior. The main deck is pierced for twenty guns (only four remain). The figurehead is of a crowned rampant lion. The stern has a round tuck, a hollow counter and a single-storey taffrail, ornamented with carvings of pilasters, draperies and scrollwork and an indistinct coat of arms. The model has quarter badges with one light framed in carved-work. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder is indicated, the tiller moving just above the cabin floor, and a steering wheel and companionway are fitted on the quarterdeck. Two anchors, a chimney for the galley, one capstan, two pumps, a binnacle and a belfry are positioned on the model. The sheer rises towards both ends. The model has two wales and a sheer rail. The hull is S-bottomed and is painted white below the waterline. The model is rigged as a brig without sails, the mainmast has a trysail mast with a gaff for the trysail, but no boom.
Obreen describes this model as the brig Pijl from 1778.3 However, no information about a brig Pijl of 1778 could be found in the archives. This model is probably the model of a snow in the private collection of Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1755-1837), mentioned in his list of May 1807.4 Asmus does not give it a name, describing it only as a snow in the style of 1660, and mentions having bought it. The year 1660 is most certainly a too early dating for this model.
Scale unknown.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 654; Catalogus Rijksmuseum Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1928, p. 22, no. 32
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a 20-Gun Snow, Netherlands, c. 1780', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244469
(accessed 23 November 2024 00:30:59).