Half Model of a 60-Gun Frigate

anonymous, c. 1828

Gepolychromeerd mallenmodel (stuurboord) van een driemaster. Vier en dertig geschutpoorten op twee dekken. Het schegbeeld is een man in loophouding. Op de kraanbalk een leeuwenkop. Achterschip met elliptisch hek van één verdieping zonder zijgalerij, daarboven een open geschutdek; recht roer met vierkante roerkoning. De zeeg loopt iets op aan beide uiteinden, één barkhout en twee reehouten. 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-321
  • Dimensionsheight 35 cm x width 135.7 cm x depth 17 cm
  • Physical characteristicswood, brass and paint

anonymous

Half Model of a 60-Gun Frigate

Netherlands, c. 1828

Inscriptions

  • label, bottom left:321 former inventory label

Conservation

  • Ab Hoving, januari 2012: minor repairs; retouched

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-321

Entry

Polychromed fully planked wooden 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 painted black, with a white band running along the full length of the lower gun deck. Thirty-four shadowed gun ports are indicated in two tiers. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends. One wale and two sheer rails are indicated. The model has three channels with deadeyes. The bow features a fully detailed beakhead with a carved figurehead, painted white, of a walking man in a loin cloth with a water jug between his feet, and a cathead decorated with a gold-painted lion’s head. The elliptic stern has flush quarter galleries and an open gun deck above. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder is indicated. The hull is S-bottomed and painted a metallic copper colour below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

The 60-gun frigate Waal, 54 metres long, after which this model was made, was built by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam from 1828 to 1840.1J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 321. The frigate was renamed Prins van Oranje in 1844 and broken up in 1897.2A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 11-12.

Scale (on model) 1:50.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 321; J.C. Mollema, Geschiedenis van Nederland ter zee, 4 vols., Amsterdam 1939-42, III; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 11-12; H. Hazelhof Roelfzema, ‘Het fregat 1ste klasse “Prins van Oranje”’, Jaarverslag Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum (1984), pp. 26-33

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 60-Gun Frigate, Netherlands, c. 1828', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053635

(accessed 17 December 2025 20:50:23).

Footnotes

  • 1J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 321.
  • 2A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 11-12.