Object data
wood and iron
height 21 cm × width 40.4 cm × depth 17.5 cm × calibre 19 mm × height 18.5 cm
width 48 cm × depth 31 cm
anonymous
Model of a 12-Pounder Gun on a Carriage
? Rotterdam, c. 1780 - c. 1800
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-777
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a 12-pounder gun on a carriage.
The wooden barrel is 41.4 cm long and has a 19 mm calibre. The carriage is trapezoidal in plan and the cheeks, with three steps and a curved cutaway below, are held together by the transom, the breast piece, the stool bed, the fore axletree and three bolts going through the cheeks. Quoin and elevation plateau are missing. The axletrees are attached to the cheeks with braces, which can be removed. The trucks are wooden and the fore trucks are larger than the hind trucks; the hind trucks are placed underneath the stool bed between the cheeks.
This model was found without catalogue number and identified by elimination and measurement. According to Obreen it represents an iron gun.1 A drawing of a similar carriage, dated 1802, is in the collection of the Tøjhusmuseet in Copenhagen.2
Scale (probably) 1:6.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 777; E. Eriksen and O.L. Frantzen, Dansk artilleri i napoleonstiden, Copenhagen 1989, p. 297
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a 12-Pounder Gun on a Carriage, Rotterdam, c. 1780 - c. 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.244591
(accessed 13 November 2024 06:39:52).