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anonymous

Model of a Gunboat

Netherlands, c. 1800 - c. 1825

Object data

wood, brass, rope and paint

model: height 21.9 cm × length 74.6 cm × width 28.2 cm
packaging capsule: height 25 cm × width 78 cm × depth 32.5 cm

Provenance

...; collection Mr J. Schouten, Dordrecht; purchased by the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1861;1 transferred to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-1088

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Polychromed planked frame model of the hull of a flat-bottomed, single-masted gunboat.

The model has one gun in a bowport underneath the bowsprit, and two small guns in the sides aft. The foredeck underneath the gun is reinforced with lateral planking. It has a round bow and stern, with a broad rudder and a hand tiller on deck. The deck has a main hatch and two companionways. Below decks the hull is empty, but ceiled. Of the rigging, only part of the mast and bowsprit are indicated by stumps, a deck horse for the foresail and one for the main sheet, and the chains. In the sides, leeboards complete with tackle are indicated. The hull has a flat bottom and is painted white below the waterline.

The model was bought by the Department of the Navy, together with models NG-MC-1087 and NG-MC-1091, from the collection of J. Schouten in Dordrecht in 1861. This model was found without a catalogue number and its identification was by a process of elimination.

The entry for this number reads ‘landing craft of the Napoleonic era, of which 216 were built’.2 The glass case mentioned in the original inventory is missing.

Scale unknown.

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1088; E. Pâris, Souvenirs de Marine, facsimile, 3 vols., Grenoble 1975-76, pl. 41

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Gunboat, Netherlands, c. 1800 - c. 1825', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244903

(accessed 14 November 2024 18:47:31).

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