Half Model of a 68-Gun Ship of the Line

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-261

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. Thirty-two gun ports are indicated by white frames in three tiers. The model does not indicate any details of the forecastle, whereas the quarterdeck is outlined by ribbands with square hances. The sheer is very slight. Two wales and a sheer rail are indicated. The bow features an empty beakhead with two cheeks positioned directly on the beakhead, a beakhead bulkhead, part of the beakhead platform and a black knighthead. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The model does not have a taffrail or quarter galleries. It has a straight, square-headed rudder. The hull is round and painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

Scale (derived) 1:60.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 261

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 68-Gun Ship of the Line, Netherlands, c. 1750 - c. 1810', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244071