Object data
wood, brass and paint
height 24.2 cm × width 93.7 cm × depth 13 cm
anonymous
? Flushing, c. 1836
wood, brass and paint
height 24.2 cm × width 93.7 cm × depth 13 cm
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-347
Copyright: Public domain
Wooden half bracket model of the starboard side of a three-masted ship, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard painted black.
The side of the ship is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds. The side above the wale is planked. Six pierced gun ports are situated one deck. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends. One wale and a sheer rail are indicated. The model has three channels with deadeyes. The bow features a fully detailed beakhead consisting of a carved billethead of a female bust, a trail board between the cheeks decorated with a floral garland, two hawseholes, a cathead decorated with a rosette and a knighthead. The stern has a round tuck and the counter is almost flat. The taffrail and quarter gallery are decorated with carvings. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder is indicated. The hull is S-bottomed. The position of two, slightly raked masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.
A remarkable feature is the large number of frame moulds used.
The 10-gun sloop of war Urania, 28.5 metres long, was built by Pieter Schuijt Juniorsz (1797-1885) in Amsterdam from 1830 to 1832 as a training vessel.1 Urania was used as such until the year 1851 when the vessel was converted to a receiving ship and later to a drill-battery. Urania was renamed Astrea in 1868 and finally decommissioned in 1888.2
Scale (on model) 1:40.
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 347; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 20
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 10-Gun Sloop of War, Flushing, c. 1836', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244158
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