Half Model of a 44-Gun Frigate

anonymous, c. 1820

Gepolychromeerd mallenmodel (stuurboord) van een driemaster. Vijfentwintig geschutpoorten op twee dekken. Het schegbeeld is een gekroonde man met een speer. Op de kraanbalk een leeuwenkop. Achterschip met elliptisch hek en zijgalerij van één verdieping, daarboven een open geschutdek; recht roer met vierkante roerkoning. De zeeg loopt iets op aan beide uiteinden, één barkhout en één reehout. Het model is van alle rusten met jufferblokken voorzien. Gepiekt rondspant. Schaal 1:50 (schaal op model).

  • Artwork typeship model, builder's model, half model
  • Object numberNG-MC-319
  • Dimensionsheight 33 cm x width 113.7 cm x depth 15.1 cm
  • Physical characteristicswood, brass and paint

anonymous

Half Model of a 44-Gun Frigate

Netherlands, c. 1820

Inscriptions

  • inscription, bottom right, on a piece of paper, in ink:Fregat van 44 Stukken. / [followed by measurements and armament]
  • scale, top centre: paper scale in inches
  • label, bottom right:319 former inventory label

Conservation

  • Ab Hoving, augustus 2010: minor repairs; retouched

Provenance

…; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 2 July 1835;1HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 30/6/1835 N7. transferred to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-319

Entry

Polychromed fully planked half bracket model of the starboard side of a three-masted ship, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard painted white.

The side of the ship is fully planked on top of frame moulds and is painted black with a small yellow band running along its main gun deck. Twenty-five shadowed gun ports are painted in two tiers. The presence of the forecastle and quarterdeck is only suggested by their gun ports, as the waist is closed by a bulwark. The model has three channels with deadeyes. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends. One wale and a sheer rail are indicated. The bow features a fully detailed, gold-painted beakhead with a carved figurehead depicting a woman with her hair in a bun, a spear in her left hand and a knife tucked into her belt on her right hand side. The cathead is decorated with a gold lion’s head. The elliptic stern has a quarter gallery with an open deck. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder is indicated. The hull is S-bottomed and painted a metallic copper below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

This model was transferred from the Navy dockyard in Amsterdam to the Navy Model Room in The Hague on 2 July 1835.2HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, inv. no. 3932, Exh. 30/6/1835 N7. Six 44-gun frigates, measuring 46.21 metres in length, were built according to this design: Sambre (Pieter Schuijt Juniorsz, Amsterdam 1821-25; reduced to a 28-gun frigate in 1828 and renamed Algiers; decommissioned in 1853); Palembang (Pieter Schuijt Juniorsz, Amsterdam 1822-29; decommissioned in 1864); Zaan (Pieter Schuijt Juniorsz, Amsterdam 1825-31; decommissioned in 1850); Rotterdam (Pieter Glavimans Jansz, Rotterdam 1821-26; reduced to a 28-gun frigate in 1838; decommissioned in 1862); Jason (Pieter Glavimans Jansz, Rotterdam 1824-29; decommissioned in 1850) and Ceres (Pieter Glavimans Jansz, Rotterdam 1824-30; converted to a floating battery in 1859-60 and renamed Draak; decommissioned in 1873).3J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 319; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 8-14.

Scale (on model) 1:50.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 319; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 8-14; A. van Dijk, Voor Pampus. De ontwikkeling van de scheepsbouw bij de Koninklijke Marine omstreeks 1860, Amsterdam/The Hague 1987 (Bijdragen tot de Nederlandse Marinegeschiedenis, vol. 4) (Ceres)

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 44-Gun Frigate, Netherlands, c. 1820', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053633

(accessed 16 December 2025 08:56:25).

Footnotes

  • 1HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 30/6/1835 N7.
  • 2HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, inv. no. 3932, Exh. 30/6/1835 N7.
  • 3J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 319; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 8-14.