Half Model of a 28-Gun Sloop of War

anonymous, c. 1825

Gepolychromeerd mallenmodel (stuurboord) van een driemaster. Dertien geschutpoorten op één dek, geen andere dekken aangegeven. Gewrongen spiegel, hol wulf, geen details van het hek, geen zijgalerij; recht roer met vierkante roerkoning. Zeeg naar voor en achter oplopend, twee barkhouten en één reehout. Gepiekt rondspant. Schaal ca. 1:36 (afgeleid).

  • Artwork typeship model, builder's model, half model
  • Object numberNG-MC-341
  • Dimensionsheight 35.5 cm x width 127.4 cm x depth 16 cm
  • Physical characteristicswood and paint

anonymous

Half Model of a 28-Gun Sloop of War

? Rotterdam, c. 1825

Inscriptions

  • inscription, top centre, on two rectangular black labels:KENAU HASSELAAR. / PALLAS. / EURIDICE. / IRENE.
  • label, bottom right:341 former inventory label

Conservation

  • Ab Hoving, juli 2009: stern and gunports reconstructed

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-341

Entry

Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the starboard 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. Thirteen gun ports are indicated by white frames situated on one continuous deck. The sheer rises towards both ends. Two wales and a sheer rail are indicated, all are painted black. The bow features an empty beakhead with two cheeks positioned directly on the beakhead and a knighthead. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The model does not have a taffrail or quarter galleries. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder is indicated. The hull is S-bottomed and painted white below the waterline.

Only the inscription of the Pallas belongs to this model, the other inscriptions refer to larger frigates. The 28-gun sloop of war Pallas, 130 feet long, was built by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam in 1822-24.1J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 341. Pallas garnered some fame because of a research assignment to the United Kingdom and North America in 1825 under the command of Julius Constantijn Rijk (1787-1854).2J.C. Rijk, Generaal Rapport Z.M. Pallas, s.l. 1825, manuscript with 6 appendices in HSM, inv. no. NII (03144) There is no further mention of the vessel after 1837.3A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 19.

Scale (derived) approx. 1:36.

Literature

J.C. Rijk, Generaal Rapport Z.M. Pallas, s.l. 1825, manuscript with 6 appendices in HSM, inv. no. NII (03144); J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 341; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 19; A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, pp. 193-221

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 28-Gun Sloop of War, Rotterdam, c. 1825', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053654

(accessed 2 January 2026 14:06:29).

Footnotes

  • 1J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 341.
  • 2J.C. Rijk, Generaal Rapport Z.M. Pallas, s.l. 1825, manuscript with 6 appendices in HSM, inv. no. NII (03144)
  • 3A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 19.