Object data
wood, brass and bronze
height 23.5 cm × width 55.5 cm × depth 27 cm × calibre 27.5 mm × weight 20.4 kg
anonymous
Model of a 36-Pounder Gun on a Carriage
? Rotterdam, 1800
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the barrel: 36 lbDR MODEL / EEN SESDE GEDEELTE / VAN DE WAARE / GROOTE
- monogram, on the barrel: Am 1800 M
- inscription, on the carriage: M 36 P / 34.
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-771
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a 36-pounder gun on a carriage.
The barrel is 55.5 cm long and has a 27.5 mm calibre and a breech ring; the breech is flat at the back. Written inscriptions are engraved on the barrel, along with two crossed anchors and two palm branches. The carriage is trapezoidal in plan, the cheeks each have four steps and a curved cutaway below and are held together by the transom, the stool bed, and a cross-beam supporting the stool bed; the stool bed has a trapezoidal elevation plateau, resting forward with hooks on a bolt going straight through both cheeks and to the rear on the stool bed. The carriage has a horizontal breast piece and a quoin. The axletrees are attached to the cheeks with removable braces. The wooden trucks are double and the fore trucks are larger than the hind trucks.
The barrel model is one of a series with the same type of inscription. The monogram on the barrel refers to the Admiralty of Rotterdam (Maze), which, however, no longer existed in 1800.
Scale (on model) 1:6.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 771; W.G.M.H. Canisius, ‘De ontwikkeling van scheepsgeschut bij de Nederlandse marine in 1780-1880’, Erfgoed van Industrie en Techniek 2 (1993), no. 2, pp. 43-62, no. 3, pp. 80-87, p. 44
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a 36-Pounder Gun on a Carriage, Rotterdam, 1800', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244585
(accessed 23 November 2024 10:16:03).