Half Model of a 32-Gun Sloop of War

anonymous, c. 1833

Gepolychromeerd beplankt mallenmodel (stuurboord) van een driemaster. Negentien geschutpoorten verdeeld over twee dekken. Het schegbeeld is een vrouwelijk borstbeeld. Elliptisch hek van één verdieping, zijgalerij van één verdieping; roer met ronde roerkoning (Soetermeer's versie) en roerblad afgerond op de waterlijn. Het model is voorzien van alle rusten met jufferblokken. Vlakke zeeg, één barkhout en twee reehouten. Gepiekt rondspant, vrij scherp onderwaterschip. Schaal 1:40 (schaal op model).

  • Artwork typeship model, builder's model, half model
  • Object numberNG-MC-345
  • Dimensionsheight 36.5 cm x width 130 cm x depth 15.7 cm
  • Physical characteristicswood, metal and paint

anonymous

Half Model of a 32-Gun Sloop of War

? Rotterdam, c. 1833

Inscriptions

  • inscription, bottom right, on a piece of paper, in ink:Corvet van 32 Stukken. / [followed by measurements and armament]
  • label, bottom right:345 former inventory label
  • scale, bottom centre: paper scale in inches

Conservation

  • Ab Hoving, augustus 2010: minor repairs; retouched

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-345

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 main gun deck. Nineteen shadowed gun ports are painted on the side of the model, indicating two tiers. The extent of the forecastle and quarterdeck is only suggested by their gun ports, as the waist is closed by a bulwark. The sheer is flat. 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 bust of a woman on a gold-painted wreath as a billethead and a cathead. The elliptic stern has a taffrail and a single-storey quarter gallery. Below the stern a round-headed rudder (Soetermeer’s version) rounded at the waterline is indicated. The hull is sharply 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 32-gun 12-pounder sloop of war Juno, 39.5 metres long, was built by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam from 1833 to 1839.1J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 345. Juno was decommissioned in the Dutch East Indies in 1871.2A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 18.

Scale (on model) 1:40.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 345

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 32-Gun Sloop of War, Rotterdam, c. 1833', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053658

(accessed 17 December 2025 13:12:37).

Footnotes

  • 1J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 345.
  • 2A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 18.