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anonymous

Half Model of a 74-Gun Ship of the Line

Netherlands, c. 1782

Object data

wood and paint

height 43.5 cm × width 142 cm × depth 19.5 cm

Inscriptions

  • inscription, top left, on an oval paper label: BRABAND./ à 76 st./ GB: 1782.
  • inscription, top centre, on an oval wooden label: 2 / STAATEN GENERAAL / NU BATO 76 St./ GB 1786
  • scale, top centre: paper scale in Amsterdam feet
  • label, bottom right: 267 former inventory label

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-267

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the port side of a three-masted ship, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard.

The side of the ship is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds. The quarterdeck and forecastle are outlined by ribbands. The sheer rises towards the stern. Two wales and a sheer rail are indicated, all are painted black. The bow features only a stempost, a beakhead bulkhead specified by a frame mould, part of a beakhead platform and a bollard timber. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The model does not have a taffrail, quarter galleries or a rudder. The bottom is almost flat. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

Two ships were built after this model: Willem de Eerste (which Obreen called Prins Willem)1 built by Pieter van Zwijndregt Paulusz (1711-1790) in Rotterdam in 1782-85, which was renamed Brutus in 1795, again renamed Braband in 1806 and broken up in 1820;2 and Staten Generaal built by Pieter Glavimans (1755-1820) in Rotterdam in 1786, later renamed Bato and burnt in 1806 at the Cape of Good Hope. The ships were 180 feet long and were both listed as 67-gun and 74-gun ships.

Scale (on model) 1:44.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 267; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 2

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 74-Gun Ship of the Line, Netherlands, c. 1782', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244076

(accessed 25 April 2024 16:32:44).

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