Half Model of a 16-Gun Brig

Jochem Pietersz. Asmus, c. 1796

Ingelijst mallenmodel (stuurboord) van een tweemaster, incompleet. De huid boven het barkhout is gesloten, acht geschutpoorten op een dek. Het schegbeeld ontbreekt, het achtergebleven silhouet verraadt een staande figuur. Gewrongen spiegel, hol wulf, hek met drie en een halve lichten en geschulpte bovenrand; recht roer met vierkante roerkoning. De zeeg loopt op naar beide uiteinden, een barkhout. Het onderwaterschip is een scherpe V-vorm. Rusten van de grote en fokkemast (deze laatste ontbreekt). Schaal 1:55 (afgeleid).

  • Artwork typeship model, builder's model, half model
  • Object numberNG-MC-951
  • Dimensionsheight 26 cm x width 87.5 cm x depth 11 cm
  • Physical characteristicswood and paint

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Half Model of a 16-Gun Brig

Amsterdam, c. 1796

Inscriptions

  • inscription, left, on an oval white label:Atalante / Lang 115 Voet / Wijd 32 Vt 3 d / Hol 38 [...] / Gebouwt in de / Jare 1796
  • label, bottom right:951 former inventory label

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-951

Entry

Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the starboard side of a two-masted vessel, mounted on a framed rectangular black painted wooden backboard.

The side of the ship is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds, above the wale the side is planked. Eight black painted gun ports are recessed into the side, placed in one tier. The rail cap is painted black. The bow features an empty beakhead, with two cheeks indicated and a black painted cathead. The figurehead is missing, based on its silhouette it was a standing figure. The stern has a round tuck, a hollow counter, a taffrail with three and a half lights and a scalloped upper side that protrudes from the ship’s side. Below the stern is a straight, square-headed rudder. The sheer rises towards both ends. One wale is indicated, painted black. The hull is V-shaped and painted white below the waterline. The model has two sets of channels. The position of two masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

The scale was calculated according to the length in Amsterdam feet. In Rotterdam feet the scale would come to 1:58. The 16-gun brig Atalante, 115 feet long, was built in 1796 in Flushing by a shipwright named Priel.1HNA 1.01.47.36 Admiraliteitscolleges, Losse Aanwinsten, inv. no. 17, Genealogie Asmus. Both a Willem and a Dirk Priel are mentioned as shipwrights by De Kanter in 1795.2J. de Kanter, Chronyk van Zierikzee, Zierikzee 1795, p. 296. Line drawings in the collection of Het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam refer directly to this number of the Navy Model Room.3NSM OA IIB.45, OA IID.9a.

Scale (derived) c. 1:55.

Literature

J. de Kanter, Chronyk van Zierikzee, Zierikzee 1795, p. 296; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 951; Jaarverslag Vereniging Nederlands Historisch Scheepvaartmuseum 1925, pp. 110-13; Catalogus Rijksmuseum Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1928, nos. 39, 242, port. IIC

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Jochem Pietersz. Asmus, Half Model of a 16-Gun Brig, Amsterdam, c. 1796', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20054027

(accessed 12 January 2026 02:31:15).

Footnotes

  • 1HNA 1.01.47.36 Admiraliteitscolleges, Losse Aanwinsten, inv. no. 17, Genealogie Asmus.
  • 2J. de Kanter, Chronyk van Zierikzee, Zierikzee 1795, p. 296.
  • 3NSM OA IIB.45, OA IID.9a.