Object data
wood and paint
height 35 cm × width 64 cm × depth 10.5 cm
Jacob de Hen
Half Model of an Inspection Craft
Netherlands, Amsterdam, 1779
Inscriptions
- inscription, top centre, on a wreathed wooden cartouche: Model / van S'Lands Monster Schuijt / en dienst Van de Monster Commissaris / op Texel / Onder 't Resortvan 't Edele Mogende / Collegie ter Admiraliteit / In Amsterdam. / Gebouwt door Meestr Wlm Ld van Genth / Anno 1779. / Jacob de Hen.
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-455
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Polychromed wooden half block model of a single-masted flat-bottomed vessel, mounted on a framed, rectangular wooden backboard.
The deck is closed and detailed with a deckhouse, a knighthead, a slightly raised section aft and a deck horse. The gunwale is painted green. Against the gunwale fittings for a leeboard and two chainplates forward and one aft are indicated. The round stern is fitted with a broad rudder, decorated with elaborately carved and gold-painted man’s head and a hand tiller. The sheer rises towards both ends, one wale and a sheer rail are indicated. The hull is flat-bottomed and painted white below the waterline. Under the keel two supports are mounted to the backboard imitating a full model on a stand. A single mast is indicated in a truncated form.
Dockyard Superintendent Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1765-1837) mentions this model in a list of objects that were transferred to him by his predecessor Jan Binkes in 1798.2 This vessel was built for the Water Bailiff of Texel, who acted under the authority of the Admiralty of Amsterdam, by Willem Lodewijk van Gent in 1779. There is an identical model in the collection of Het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam.3
Scale (estimate) 1:33.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 455; JAARVERSLAG VERENIGING NEDERLANDS HISTORISCH SCHEEPVAARTMUSEUM 1975, pp. 10-11; H. Dessens and E. Spits, Schepen in het klein. Geschiedenis en typologie van het Nederlandse scheepsmodel, coll. cat. Zutphen (Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum) 1998, p. 49
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Jacob de Hen, Half Model of an Inspection Craft, Netherlands, 1779', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244268
(accessed 27 April 2024 06:05:15).