Object data
wood and brass
height 18 cm × width 23 cm × depth 19 cm × calibre 33 mm × weight 3.6 kg
anonymous
Model of a 16-Pounder Stone Howitzer on a Ship's Carriage
? Rotterdam, 1800
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the barrel: 16 lbDR STEEN / MODEL / EEN SESDE / GEDEELTE VAN DE / WAARE GROOTE
- monogram, on the barrel: Am 1800 M
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-761
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a howitzer on a carriage.
The howitzer is 19.6 cm long and has a 33 mm calibre. Written inscriptions are engraved on the barrel, along with crossed anchors and palm branches. It has two dolphins. The very short carriage consists of two parallel cheeks with two steps, connected by a transom, a cross-beam and the axletrees; the stool bed rests on the axletrees. The bolster can be set at different positions on the stool bed, secured to the inner face of the cheeks with pins in a rim. The axletrees are attached to the cheeks with braces, which can be removed. The model has double, equally sized wooden trucks.
The barrel belongs to a series of models with the same type of inscription. The model is mentioned by Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1755-1837) in 1807 as belonging to his private collection.3 The monogram on the barrel refers to the Admiralty of Rotterdam (Maze), which, however, no longer existed in 1800.
The model does not correspond to the measurements of the carriage as given in a table of a 16-pounder stone howitzer made for Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen (1735-1819) in 1782.4 The calibre is considerably larger than those for the ordnance of iron projectiles of the same weight. The carriages were not stable and often toppled over.
Scale (on model) 1:6.
Literature
Table with Measurements of the Carriage for a 16. pnd. Stone Howitzer, Made for the Admiral J.H. van Kinsbergen, Febr. 1782, manuscript in KMA 15/4a; J.N. Calten, Leiddraad bij het onderrigt in de zee-artillerie, Delft 1832, pp. 56, 107, pl. V, fig. 1; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 761
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a 16-Pounder Stone Howitzer on a Ship's Carriage, Rotterdam, 1800', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244575
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