Object data
wood, brass, glass, rope and paint
height 80 cm × length 100.5 cm × width 36.5 cm
anonymous
Model of a 12-Gun Brig
? Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1785 - 1795
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, June 2011: partially rerigged and retouched
Provenance
...; collection Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1765-1837), Amsterdam, 1807;1 Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1837;2 transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-660
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Rigged wooden block model of a two-masted ship, mounted on a stand.
Twelve guns are mounted in the broadside and two more gun ports are indicated at the stern. The model had two decks and a deckhouse with stairs leading below deck. The figurehead is of a Roman warrior with a shield, spear and sword, the beakhead is decorated with painted scrolls. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The single-storey taffrail is decorated with carvings of foliage and a coat of arms with an arrow. Two gun ports are situated in the railing above the taffrail. The model has quarter-badges with one light. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder with afterpieces is indicated, and a tiller with steering tackle on deck. The model is fitted with two anchors, a windlass, a Y-shaped chimney for the galley, two pumps and a binnacle. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends, one wale and a sheer rail are indicated. The hull has an S-shaped bottom. The model is rigged as a two-masted brig without sails.
Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1755-1837) mentions this model in a list of his private collection from May 1807.3 It had been given to him as a present. The 12-gun brig Pijl, 80 feet long, was built by William May (1725-1807) in Amsterdam in 1785.4 The ship served both in the Dutch East and West Indies. It was converted into a 16-gun brigantine in 1795. It was captured by the British in 1796 and taken into service of the British Navy.5
Scale (derived) 1:36.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 660; J.J. Backer Dircks, De Nederlandsche zeemacht in haar verschillende tijdperken geschetst, 2 vols., The Hague 1890; J.C. Mollema, Geschiedenis van Nederland ter zee, 4 vols., Amsterdam 1939-42; A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, p. 67; A.A. Lemmers, ‘Shipworm, Hogbacks and Duck’s Arses: The Influence of William May on Sir Robert Seppings’, The Mariner’s Mirror 99 (2013), no. 4, pp. 410-28, p. 418, note 36
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a 12-Gun Brig, Amsterdam, 1785 - 1795', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244476
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