Object data
wood and paint
height 20 cm × width 97.8 cm × depth 13 cm
anonymous
Half Model of a Launch
Netherlands, 1780 - 1820
Inscriptions
- label, centre right: 453 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-453
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the port side of a launch, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard.
The side of the vessel is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds, the gunwale is planked and painted red and yellow. It has a pointed bow, the stern has a square tuck and a flat transom. The stempost is curved, the sternpost is straight and fitted with a broad rudder. The sheer rises towards both ends, one wale is indicated and continuous around the tuck. The hull is S-bottomed and painted white below the waterline. The keel is slightly curved, rising at the ends.
Scale unknown.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 453
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a Launch, Netherlands, 1780 - 1820', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244266
(accessed 26 November 2024 16:45:29).