Rijksmuseum

Object data

wood, iron, brass and paint

height 24.5 cm × width 49 cm × depth 22.5 cm
height 6 cm × width 54 cm × depth 41.5 cm

Inscriptions

label, on the carriage: 786 former inventory label

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-786

Entry

Polychromed wooden model of a gun and carriage.

The wooden barrel is painted black, red and white. It is 49 cm long and has a 21 mm calibre. The neck of the button is very long and has a percussion lock mounted on it with a brace. The head of the hammer has a U-shaped striking surface, which strikes around the vent, preventing the flame coming out of the vent by throwing the hammer back. The hammer turns in a forked post on the button, which has a tumbler underneath the hammer with a lanyard going through a sheave. The carriage is painted green and is trapezoidal in plan. The cheeks, with three steps and an ellipsoidal cutaway below, are held together by an inclined transom and the axletrees. The stool bed connects the hind and fore axletrees. The carriage has a horizontal breast piece with a hinged outer part; the quoin and stool are missing. The wooden trucks are double and are equal in size.

The gun is probably a 12 pounder. None of the archival records refer to this particular model. The percussion lock is a prototype; percussion locks were tested in the Netherlands from 1835 onwards.

Scale (estimate) 1:6.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 786; H. van Goens, Handleiding tot de kennis van de zee-artillerie, Rotterdam 1861-65, pp. 589 ff., pl. XVIII, fig. 107; J.N. Calten, Leiddraad bij het onderrigt in de zee-artillerie, Delft 1832, pp. 44, 86 ff., pl. III; L.K. Turk, Gegevens en tekeningen van geschut en munitie, verstrekt op verschillende schepen en sloepen van de Koninklijke Marine, s.l. [c. 1848], manuscript in NSM, inv. no. A.0356(0006); 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 a Gun and Carriage, Netherlands, c. 1845', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244600

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