Object data
wood
height 20.2 cm × width 81.2 cm × depth 9 cm
Meursing & Huijgens
Half Model of a Schooner
Amsterdam, c. 1877 - c. 1878
Inscriptions
- inscription, bottom left, on a square metal label: SCHOONER WILLEM BARENTS / 79 GEMETEN TONNEN / [followed by measurements] / KIEL GELEGD 1 DECEMBER 1877 TE WATER GELATEN 6 APRIL 1878 / MEURSING & HUIJGENS
- label, top right: 1391 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1391
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Wooden ‘bread-and-butter’ style half block model of the port side of a two-masted schooner, mounted on a framed rectangular wooden backboard.
The model features a very sharp clipper bow and a counter stern fitted with a round-blade rudder. The sheer rises forward. The hull is V-shaped. The position of two masts and the bowsprit are shown in a truncated form. The foremast is missing but its outline is still visible.
The most remarkable feature is the partly reinforced planking for sailing in arctic regions at the bow and around the ship at and just below the waterline.
Willem Barents, 24 metres long, was a scientific exploration vessel used for arctic exploration. It made a total of seven expeditions to the Arctic between 1878 and 1884.1
Scale unknown.
Literature
De tochten der Nederlanders naar de Noordelijke IJszee met de ‘Willem Barents’ in de jaren 1878-1879, bijblad van Tijdschrift van het Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, Amsterdam 1880 (with later additions Haarlem 1882-85); J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1391; W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns, De eerste tocht van de Willem Barentsz naar de Noordelijke IJszee 1878, 2 vols., Zutphen 1985; V.D. Roeper and G.J.D. Wildeman, Reizen op papier. Journalen en reisverslagen van Nederlandse ontdekkingsreizigers, kooplieden en avonturiers, Zutphen 1996, pp. 94, 110-11; W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns, ‘Een souvenir van het Behouden Huis. Het tragische leven van Laurens Koolemans Beijnen (1852-1879)’, in R. Daalder et al. (eds.), De ontdekking van de wereld. Nederlanders in onbekend vaarwater (1600-2000), Zutphen 2003, pp. 123-33; K. Dekker and F. van Essen, De Nederlandse poolexpeditie van 1882-1883. Overwintering op een ijsschots, Zeist 2014
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Meursing & Huijgens, Half Model of a Schooner, Amsterdam, c. 1877 - c. 1878', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245195
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