Object data
wood and brass
height 8 cm × width 31.8 cm × depth 22.5 cm
anonymous
Model of a Maintop
Netherlands, c. 1850
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the crosstrees: Q / Q / Q
- inscription, front: S
- label, tied, to the top rail: 165 former inventory label
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, October 2008: missing parts reconstructed
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-165
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Construction model of a top with loose gratings. It is rounded at the front and supported by three crosstrees. The top rim is reinforced with brass strips, the decking is covered with gratings. To the back there is a top rail.
This model represents the maintop of Piet Hein, a ship of the line laid down in 1833, taken apart and re-assembled as the first Dutch screw steam frigate Admiraal van Wassenaer,1 59.62 metres long, built by August Elize Tromp (1801-1871) in Amsterdam from 1853 to 1856.2 Together with a number of models of spars an entire mainmast can be assembled.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 165; J. Wentholt, Memoriaal reis Admiraal van Wassenaer, s.l. 1869, manuscript in HSM, inv. no. S.2277(01)
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Maintop, Netherlands, c. 1850', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.243977
(accessed 30 April 2024 19:12:37).