Object data
wood and brass
model: height 41.5 cm × width 44 cm × depth 36.3 cm
packaging capsule: height 48.5 cm × width 87.5 cm × depth 42.5 cm
anonymous
Model of the Stern of a Ship in Frames
Amsterdam, c. 1797 - c. 1807
Inscriptions
- inscription: parts labelled A to X
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, 1992: minor repairs
Provenance
...; 's Lands Werf (Navy dockyard) Amsterdam, 18 April 1798;1 Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague; transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-96
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Wooden frame model with ribbands of a stern.
The model shows a round tuck with three filling transoms. The space in between is filled with other horizontal timbers. It has a hollow counter. The taffrail is indicated by stern timbers. The model has four station frames (the aft two are peak frames) and fashion frames. The frames have nine parts. The sheer rises towards the stern.
Dockyard Superintendent Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1755-1837) mentions this model in a list of objects which were transferred to him by his predecessor Jan Binkes in 1798.2 It is a pendant of model NG-MC-87.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 96
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of the Stern of a Ship in Frames, Amsterdam, c. 1797 - c. 1807', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242821
(accessed 15 November 2024 06:48:19).