...; anonymous donation to the Feestcommissie ter herdenking Slag bij de Doggersbank, 16 August 1881;¹¹J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, no. 1423, manuscript in NHA 476, inv. no. 1089. transferred to the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague;²²Ibid. transferred to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-1423

Ribbon with five identical scenes: a triton blowing a horn and carrying a tricolour with the inscription ‘Zoutman’; in the background is a ship with a second inscription.

The ribbon was offered to the Department of the Navy on 16 August 1881 by Mr I.B.N. Escher on behalf of the Organizing Committee in Amsterdam, which had received it from an unknown donor.³³J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1423. In the Rijksmuseum collection are several ribbons referring to the Dogger Bank episode.⁴⁴NG-KOG-1203, NG-KOG-1248, NG-695-9, NG-695-10, NG-695-11, NG-695-12, NG-695-13, NG-695-14, NG-695-15, NG-695-16, NG-1137, RP-P-1907-3939, RP-P-OB-85.216, RP-P-OB-85.217, RP-P-OB-85.218.

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1423; B. de Groot and A. Huussen Jr, ‘Poëtische polemiek om “Doggersbank” 1781-1782’, in L. Akveld et al. (eds.), In het kielzog. Maritiem-historische studies aangeboden aan Jaap R. Bruijn bij zijn vertrek als hoogleraar zeegeschiedenis aan de Universiteit Leiden, Amsterdam 2003, pp. 61-84

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Ribbon of the Action off Dogger Bank, Netherlands, c. 1781', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20054272