Object data
wood and paint
height 23.8 cm × width 75.3 cm × depth 15 cm
anonymous
Half Model of a Gaff-Rigged Gunboat
Netherlands, c. 1780 - c. 1830
Inscriptions
- inscription, top centre, on an oval white label: PLATBOOMD VAARTUIG
- scale, top centre: paper scale (missing)
- label, bottom right: 415 former inventory label
Conservation
- Restauratieatelier Scheepsmodellen, 2008: restored
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-415
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the starboard side of a single-masted flat-bottomed ship, mounted on a rectangular black, wooden backboard.
The side of the ship is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds. Above the wale the side is planked and detailed with a leeboard and chainplates. The deck is closed. The sheer rises towards both ends. One wale is indicated, painted black. One gun port is indicated in the bow next to the bowsprit. The stern is round and fitted with a broad rudder with a hand tiller. The hull is flat-bottomed and painted white below the waterline. The position of one mast and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.
This type of gunboat had a total armament of two guns in the bow.1
Scale unknown.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 415; R.F. Cairo, ‘Notes on Dutch Gaff Gunboats: A Provisional Report’, Nautical Research Journal 16 (1968), no. 1, pp. 3-16
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a Gaff-Rigged Gunboat, Netherlands, c. 1780 - c. 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.244228
(accessed 19 April 2024 19:48:33).