Object data
wood, iron and paint
height 25 cm × width 46.5 cm × depth 23.5 cm × calibre 21 mm × height 18.5 cm
width 54 cm × depth 41.5 cm
anonymous
Model of an 18-Pounder Gun on Carriage
? Rotterdam, 1800
Inscriptions
- label, on the carriage: 775 former inventory label
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, August 2002: minor repairs; repainted; revarnished
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-775
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of an iron 18-pounder gun on a carriage.
The barrel is 48.4 cm long and has a 21 mm calibre. The carriage is trapezoidal in plan, the cheeks have three steps and an ellipsoidal cutaway below and are held together by an inclined transom and the axletrees, which are attached to the cheeks with braces, which can be removed. The stool bed connects the hind and fore axletrees. The carriage has a breast piece with hinging outer part; the quoin is missing. The wooden trucks are double and are equal in size; the axletrees have chocks underneath, on which the carriage can rest when the trucks are removed.
The barrel was found separately (in fact, it was mounted on model NG-MC-1155), its identification is based on measurement and probability.
Scale (derived) 1:6.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 775; H. van Goens, Handleiding tot de kennis van de zee-artillerie, Rotterdam 1861-65, pp. 589 ff., pl. XVIII, fig. 107; J. Boudriot, ‘L’artillerie de mer de la Marine Française 1674-1856’, Neptunia 89-101 (1968-70), vol. 91, pp. 2, 10
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of an 18-Pounder Gun on 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.244589
(accessed 10 November 2024 17:57:08).