Title(s)

Three Models of Mast Caps

Object type

• scale model

Object number

NG-MC-174

Description

Drie ezelshoofden die van het model van de Oostindiëvaarder van 40 stukken de Vergelijking (NG-MC-658) zijn afgehaald. Ze zijn alle drie van 18de-eeuws model met ronde bovenkant en zwart geverfd.

Artist

• model maker: anonymous

Place

Netherlands

Dating

c. 1780

Physical features

wood, brass and paint

Material

• wood (plant material)
• brass (alloy)
• paint (coating)

Measurements

(A): height 3 cm × width 5.7 cm × depth 7.5 cm
(B): height 3 cm × width 5.2 cm × depth 6.5 cm
(C): height 2 cm × width 5.7 cm × depth 5.7 cm

Acquisition

transfer 1883

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Is part of

• Model of the 40-gun East Indiaman Vergelijking Amsterdam, 1780 wood, brass, iron, glass, rope, leather The administrators of the Naval Models Room not only commissioned new models, but also ‘improved’ existing ones. During the 19th century this model of an 18th- century East Indiaman was fitted with an emergency foremast and lightning conductors by J.P. Asmus. The Dutch East India Company had no ship called Vergelijking (Comparison) in its service. The name suggests that the model may have been intended to illustrate new ship-building techniques. (NG-MC-658)

• Catalogus der verzameling van modellen van het Department van Marine, p. 33, cat.nr. 174