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anonymous

Fragment of a Ship Flag

Netherlands, c. 1600 - 1700

Object data

wool

height 388 cm × width 495 cm

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889

Object number: NG-MC-1889-83-22

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Fragment of a tricolour in horizontal bars in yellow, white and red. The yellow bar is almost entirely missing.

This is a seventeenth-century ship flag from the town of Middelburg.

Literature

M. van den Brandhof, Vlaggen, vaandels en standaarden van het Rijksmuseum. Een geïllustreerde catalogus, Amsterdam 1977, no. 127

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Fragment of a Ship Flag, Netherlands, c. 1600 - 1700', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245341

(accessed 25 November 2024 23:01:53).

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