Object data
wood and paint
height 18.5 cm × width 63.8 cm × depth 9 cm
anonymous
Half Model of a Gunboat
? Amsterdam, c. 1792
Inscriptions
- label, centre left: 417 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-417
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the starboard side of a flat-bottomed ship, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard.
The side of the ship is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds. The sheer is almost flat. One wale is indicated. The stern is pointed and fitted with a broad rudder with a hand tiller. The hull is flat-bottomed and painted white below the waterline.
This type of gunboat had one gun in the bow. According to Obreen this model was a design for a gunboat intended for the defence of rivers, devised by the Admiralty of Amsterdam in 1792.1
Scale unknown.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 417
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a Gunboat, Amsterdam, c. 1792', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244230
(accessed 8 May 2024 07:57:42).