Object data
wood, brass, rope, paper and paint
height 44 cm × length 50 cm × width 23 cm
anonymous
Model of a 24-Gun Frigate
Netherlands, 1780 - 1830
Provenance
...; collection Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1765-1837), Amsterdam, 1807;1 Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1837;2 transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-653
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Polychromed and rigged wooden block model of a three-masted ship, mounted on a stand.
Twenty-two guns are mounted on one deck, the quarterdeck and forecastle have no guns. The beakhead carries a crowned rampant lion as a figurehead. The stern has a round tuck, a hollow counter, a taffrail and single-storey quarter galleries, decorated with carvings of foliage and one lantern. The model has a straight, square-headed rudder and a steering wheel on the quarterdeck. A ship’s bell, a chimney of the galley, a capstan and two anchors are fitted on the model. The sheer rises towards both ends. Two wales and a sheer rail are indicated. The hull is S-bottomed and is painted white below the waterline. The three-masted rigging carries no sails, the mizzen has a lateen yard.
Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1755-1837) bought this model for his private collection sometime before 1807.3 The model represents the 24-gun frigate Eendragt, 120 or 125 feet long and built by Willem Lodewijk van Gent in Harlingen in 1769. The vessel operated mainly in the Mediterranean and was shipwrecked on a sandbank in the Vlie in 1782.4
Scale (derived) approx. 1:110.
Literature
P. le Comte, Afbeeldingen van schepen en vaartuigen in verschillende bewegingen, Amsterdam 1831, pl. 45; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 653; C.W.J. Schaap, ‘De Admiraliteit van Friesland. Haar vlagofficieren en schepen’, in Jaarverslag Fries Scheepvaartmuseum en Oudheidkamer (1982), pp. 43-77, pp. 56, 58, 60; _ Jaarverslag Fries Scheepvaartmuseum en Oudheidkamer_ 1983, pp. 19-20
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a 24-Gun Frigate, Netherlands, 1780 - 1830', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244468
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