Rijksmuseum

Object data

wood and paint

height 38.5 cm × width 142.8 cm × depth 17.1 cm

Inscriptions

inscription, top centre, on a rectangular black label: EENDRACHT. 1796
label, bottom right: 309 former inventory label

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-309-1

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. Fourteen gun ports are indicated by white frames situated on one continuous deck. 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 two cheeks positioned directly on the beakhead, and a black knighthead. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The model does not have a taffrail or galleries. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder is indicated. The hull is slightly S-bottomed and 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 with catalogue number 309,¹ two have been found (see model NG-MC-309-2). The 44-gun frigate Eendragt, 169 feet long, was built by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam in 1796. Eendragt was broken up in Batavia in 1804.²

Scale (derived) approx. 1:44.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 309; A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, pp. 134-38

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 44-Gun Frigate, Netherlands, c. 1796', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053622

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