Object data
wood, brass, mica, rope, textile and paint
model: height 92.5 cm × length 110.5 cm × width 43 cm
packaging capsule: height 99 cm × width 114.5 cm × depth 41 cm
anonymous
? Amsterdam, c. 1780 - c. 1806
wood, brass, mica, rope, textile and paint
model: height 92.5 cm × length 110.5 cm × width 43 cm
packaging capsule: height 99 cm × width 114.5 cm × depth 41 cm
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-659
Copyright: Public domain
Rigged wooden block model of a three-masted ship with sails, mounted on a stand.
Twenty-four gun ports are indicated on the main deck. The lower deck has five ballast ports on either side. The model has three levels: lower deck, main deck, beakhead platform and forecastle and quarterdeck with a small deckhouse. The figurehead is of a rampant lion, the beakhead is ornamented with carvings of mermaids. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter with two gun ports. The single-storey taffrail has sliding windows and carvings of classical figures, martial trophies and a coat of arms of a dog flanked by two putti. The single-storey quarter galleries are decorated with carvings and portrait medallions of a man and a woman. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder is indicated, and a steering wheel is fitted on the quarterdeck. The model has one anchor, double riding bitts, two double capstans and a galley with a Y-shaped chimney. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends, and has two wales and two sheer rails. The hull is S-bottomed. The model is rigged on three masts with all sails, the mizzen has a lateen yard.
This model represents the 24-gun frigate Zeepaard, 125 feet 7 inches long, built in Amsterdam from 1780 to 1782. Zeepaard was the last vessel of this rate with one gun deck and without gangways or poop.1 It served mainly in the Mediterranean, but also made voyages to the Dutch East and West Indies. Converted to an 18-gun troop ship in 1797, it was captured by the British in 1799, but abandoned. Zeepaard garnered fame by preventing a British invasion of Texel in 1804. The ship was grounded in the Nieuwediep in 1805 and broken up shortly afterwards.2
Scale (derived) 1:48.
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 659; Catalogus Rijksmuseum Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1928, p. 22, no. 36
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a 24-Gun Frigate, Amsterdam, c. 1780 - c. 1806', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244475
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