Object data
wood, brass, iron, glass, rope, leather, textile and paint
height 210 cm × length 270 cm × width 150 cm
height 216 cm × length 275 cm × width 90 cm
anonymous
Netherlands, c. 1775 - c. 1805
wood, brass, iron, glass, rope, leather, textile and paint
height 210 cm × length 270 cm × width 150 cm
height 216 cm × length 275 cm × width 90 cm
...; collection Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1765-1837), Amsterdam, 1807;1 Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1837;2 transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-950
Copyright: Public domain
Polychromed and rigged model of a cutter with sails, on a stand.
Thirteen of the eighteen original guns have been preserved. The model has a slightly curved stem and a sharp bow. The stern has a square tuck, a large hollow counter with painted decorations, a small taffrail with the ship’s name in a winged cartouche, and davits. Fitted to the raked sternpost a straight, square headed rudder is indicated, with a coat over the rudder head and a wooden tiller with steering tackles. The model has a lower and an upper deck featuring a skylight, a companionway and three hatches, and is equipped with a galley on the foredeck, two stocked anchors, a double capstan, a winch on the knighthead of the mast, two pumps, one bell, one seat of ease and fourteen oars. The sheer rises towards both ends. The model has one wale. The hull is very sharp, trimmed by the stern, and painted white below the waterline. The model has a cutter rig with sails, consisting of a jib, foresail, square foresail, topsail with bonnet and studding sails, a flying topgallant sail and a gaff mainsail with driver. Two damaged tricolours belong to the model.
This model was part of the private collection of Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1755-1837) in 1807, and stood in the model collection of Amsterdam Navy dockyard.3 According to the description it had a launch hanging from the davits aft, and an awning over the entire deck. Asmus described it as the fastest type of British cutters.
Scale unknown.
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 950
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of an 18-Gun Cutter, Netherlands, c. 1775 - c. 1805', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244764
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