Rijksmuseum

Object data

wood and paint

height 36.5 cm × width 140.9 cm × depth 15.5 cm

Inscriptions

inscription, top centre, on a square black metal label: PIET HEIN.
label, bottom right: 280 former inventory label

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-280-1

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the starboard side of a three-masted ship, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard.

The side of the ship is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds. Forty gun ports are indicated by white frames in three tiers; some are damaged or missing. The forecastle and quarterdeck are outlined by ribbands with square hances. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends. Two wales and a sheer rail are indicated, all are painted black. The bow features an empty beakhead, with the upper cheek indicated directly on the beakhead, a beakhead bulkhead and part of a beakhead platform. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The model does not have a taffrail or quarter galleries. It has a straight, square-headed rudder. The hull is slightly S-bottomed and is painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

Although Obreen mentions only one model number 280,¹ two have been found: this one and model NG-MC-280-2. The ship of the line De Ruyter, 195 feet long, was built by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam from 1804 to 1806. The ship was renamed Piet Hein, Rotterdam, Hollandais and finally Koninklijke Hollander before it was broken up in 1819.²

Scale (derived) approx. 1:55.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 280; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 3

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 90-Gun Ship of the Line, Netherlands, c. 1804', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244090

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