Object data
wood and paint
height 38.2 cm × width 18.4 cm × depth 15.7 cm
anonymous
Model of a Figurehead
Netherlands, c. 1796 - c. 1850
Inscriptions
- label, on the base: 241 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-241
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Polychromed model of a figure of a standing woman on the knee of the head, mounted on a round pedestal.
The knee of the head is ornamented with carvings of foliage. The woman is in Roman dress, holding a golden apple in her right hand and two more apples in a shawl with her left hand.
The figure represents Atalante.1 It agrees with the description of the figurehead of the brig Atalante of 1796, built in Flushing by Priel – both a Willem and a Dirk Priel are mentioned as shipwrights by De Kanter in 1795.2 The brig was captured by the British at the Vlieter in 1804.3
Literature
J. de Kanter, Chronyk van Zierikzee, Zierikzee 1795, p. 296; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 241; Jaarverslag Vereniging Nederlands Historisch Scheepvaartmuseum 1925, pp. 110-13; Catalogus Rijksmuseum Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1928, no. 39, 242; E. Pâris, Souvenirs de Marine, facsimile, 3 vols., Grenoble 1975-76, vol. 1, pl. 52.3
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Figurehead, Netherlands, c. 1796 - c. 1850', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244053
(accessed 10 November 2024 12:20:49).