Model of a Ship's Bow in Frames

B. Koster, c. 1780 - c. 1798

Technisch model van een voorschip over de lengte van vijf spanten van oprichting. Twee apostelen. Drie kluisplaten aan weerszijden, verdikkend ter hoogte van het onderste dek; de kluisplaten aan stuurboord zijn samengesteld; die aan bakboord bestaan uit een stuk. Gebogen steven. Twee dekken met dekbalken aangegeven. Negendelige spanten.

  • Artwork typeinstruction model
  • Object numberNG-MC-87
  • Dimensionsheight 37.5 cm x width 38.3 cm x depth 9.5 cm
  • Physical characteristicswood and brass

B. Koster

Model of a Ship's Bow in Frames

Amsterdam, c. 1780 - c. 1798

Inscriptions

  • inscription: parts marked A to X
  • label, on the bow:87 former inventory label

Provenance

…; 's Lands Werf (Navy dockyard) Amsterdam, 19 April 1798;1HNA 2.01.29.02 Dept. Marine, Aanhangsel I, inv. no. 20, La. K3 no. 9.; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague; transferred to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-87

Entry

Technical model of a ship’s bow covering five station frames. Two bollard timbers, three hawse pieces on either side, thickening where they meet the gun deck. The starboard hawse pieces are composite, the ones on the portside are not. The bow has a curved stempost and two decks indicated with deck beams. The frames have nine parts. The model can be taken apart.

Dockyard Superintendent Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1755-1837) mentions this model in a list of objects that were transferred to him by his predecessor Jan Binkes in 1798.2HNA 2.01.29.02 Dept. Marine, Aanhangsel I, inv. no. 20, La. K3 no. 9. It is a pendant of model NG-MC-96. The model was displayed in 1882 at the International Ship Model Exhibition in London.3Catalogue of the International Ship Model Exhibition, exh. cat. London (?) 1882, no. 155.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 87; Catalogue of the International Ship Model Exhibition, exh. cat. London [?] 1882, no. 155.

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'B. Koster, Model of a Ship's Bow in Frames, Amsterdam, c. 1780 - c. 1798', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053234

(accessed 9 December 2025 16:35:06).

Footnotes

  • 1HNA 2.01.29.02 Dept. Marine, Aanhangsel I, inv. no. 20, La. K3 no. 9.
  • 2HNA 2.01.29.02 Dept. Marine, Aanhangsel I, inv. no. 20, La. K3 no. 9.
  • 3Catalogue of the International Ship Model Exhibition, exh. cat. London (?) 1882, no. 155.