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Three Models of Mast Caps

Netherlands, c. 1780

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-174

Entry

Three of the five mast caps that were removed from the model of the 40-gun Dutch East Indiaman Vergelijking (NG-MC-658).1J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 174. The other two mast caps are lost.

They are all of an eighteenth-century design with a rounded upper side and are all painted black.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 174

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Three Models of Mast Caps, Netherlands, c. 1780', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.243986

(accessed 29 April 2025 14:36:22).

Footnotes

  • 1J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 174.