Object data
wood, brass and bronze
height 26.3 cm × width 43 cm × depth 22.3 cm × weight 12.2 kg
anonymous
Model of an 18-Pounder Gun on a Carriage
? Rotterdam, 1800
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the barrel: 18 lbDR MODEL / EEN SESDE GEDEELTE / VAN DE WAARE GROOTE
- monogram, on the barrel: Am 1800 M
- inscription, on the carriage: M 18 P / 32.
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-774
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a 18-pounder gun on a carriage.
The barrel is 47.3 cm long and has a 22.5 mm calibre, a breech ring, the button is flat at the back. Written inscriptions are engraved on the barrel, along with two crossed anchors and two palm branches. The carriage is trapezoidal in plan, the cheeks have four steps and a curved cutaway below and are held together by the transom, the stool bed and a cross-beam supporting the stool bed. The elevation plateau, resting forward with hooks on a bolt going straight through both cheeks and to the rear on the stool bed, is missing, as are the movable outer part of the breast piece and the quoin. The axletrees are attached to the cheeks with removable braces. The model has double wooden trucks; the fore trucks are larger than the hind trucks.
The barrel is one of a series with the same type of inscription. The monogram on the barrel refers to the Admiralty of Rotterdam (Maze), which, however, no longer existed in 1800.
Scale (on model) 1:6.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 774
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of an 18-Pounder Gun on a 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.244588
(accessed 22 September 2024 21:27:18).