Object data
wood and paint
width 18.3 cm
width 20.8 cm
length 85.6 cm
depth 9.3 cm
thickness 1.1 cm
anonymous
Half Model of a Tjalk
Netherlands, 1780 - 1820
Inscriptions
- label, bottom right: 465 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-465
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the starboard side of a single-masted, flat-bottomed vessel, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard, painted blue.
The side of the vessel is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds, above the wale the side is planked and features four long scupper holes. The stern is round and fitted with a broad rudder with a green-painted rudder head. The sheer rises towards both ends. One wale is indicated, painted black. The hull is flat-bottomed and painted white below the waterline. The position of a single mast is shown in a truncated form.
Scale unknown.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 465
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a Tjalk, 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.244278
(accessed 23 November 2024 16:08:26).