Object data
wood and brass
height 37.5 cm × width 38.3 cm × depth 9.5 cm
B. Koster
Model of a Ship's Bow in Frames
Amsterdam, c. 1780 - c. 1798
Inscriptions
- inscription: parts marked A to X
- label, on the bow: 87 former inventory label
Provenance
...; 's Lands Werf (Navy dockyard) Amsterdam, 19 April 1798;1; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague; transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-87
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Technical model of a ship’s bow covering five station frames. Two bollard timbers, three hawse pieces on either side, thickening where they meet the gun deck. The starboard hawse pieces are composite, the ones on the portside are not. The bow has a curved stempost and two decks indicated with deck beams. The frames have nine parts. The model can be taken apart.
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 1798.2 It is a pendant of model NG-MC-96. The model was displayed in 1882 at the International Ship Model Exhibition in London.3
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 87; Catalogue of the International Ship Model Exhibition, exh. cat. London [?] 1882, no. 155.
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'B. Koster, Model of a Ship's Bow in Frames, Amsterdam, c. 1780 - c. 1798', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242812
(accessed 15 November 2024 01:40:17).