Object data
wood
height 28.2 cm × width 20.5 cm × depth 29.3 cm
anonymous
Model of a Ship's Bow in Frames
Netherlands, c. 1820 - c. 1845
Inscriptions
- label, on the bow: 86 former inventory label
Provenance
...; 's Lands Werf (Navy dockyard) Amsterdam, 18 April 1798;1 Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague; transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-86
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Technical model of a ship’s bow covering four station frames. Two bollard timbers; three hawse pieces on either side; vertical filling frames below the breasthook; curved stem; two decks are schematically indicated; four station frames, one in detail (five parts); seven ribbands replace the planking. One top timber is damaged. The frames are constructed in a traditional eighteenth-century fashion, but for the hawse pieces and bollard timbers a new construction has been applied.2
Dockyard Superintendent Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1755-1837) mentions this model in a list of objects that were transferred to him by his predecessor Jan Binkes in 1798.3 The model was displayed at the International Ship Model Exhibition in London in 1882.4
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 86; Catalogue of the International Ship Model Exhibition, exh. cat. London [?] 1882, no. 155.
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Ship's Bow in Frames, Netherlands, c. 1820 - 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.242811
(accessed 4 January 2025 05:01:45).