Half Model of a 32-Gun Sloop of War

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-330

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. Twenty gun ports are indicated by white frames indicated in two tiers, some are damaged or missing. The sheer is almost flat. One wale and a sheer rail are indicated, both are painted black. The bow features an empty beakhead. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The model does not have a taffrail or quarter galleries. Below the stern a round-headed rudder (Soetermeer’s version) that is rounded at the waterline is indicated. The hull is S-bottomed and painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

The model has twenty gun ports, suggesting that the inscription, which refers to a 32-gun sloop of war, may not belong to this model. However no historical documentation could be found to confirm this suggestion.

Scale unknown.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 330

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 32-Gun Sloop of War, Netherlands, c. 1830', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244140