Half Model of a 68-Gun Ship of the Line

anonymous, c. 1797 - c. 1798

Gepolychromeerd mallenmodel (stuurboord) van een driemaster. Geen geschutpoorten en dekken aangegeven, behalve het halfdek. Gewrongen spiegel, hol wulf, geen hek of zijgalerij; recht roer met vierkante roerkoning. Vrij vlakke zeeg, twee berghouten en één reehout. Vrij scherp onderwaterschip. Schaal 1:50 (schaal op model).

  • Artwork typeship model, builder's model, half model
  • Object numberNG-MC-272-2
  • Dimensionsheight 34.3 cm x width 125.1 cm x depth 14.5 cm
  • Physical characteristicswood and paint

anonymous

Half Model of a 68-Gun Ship of the Line

Netherlands, c. 1797 - c. 1798

Inscriptions

  • inscription, top, from left to right, on six oval wooden labels (some painted black):Doggers Bank / 1797 // ZEELAND / à 68 St. / GB: 1798. // Schrikverwekker / 1798 // Pluto / 1798 // Joan de Wit / 1798 // ROTTERDAMSCHE / HANDEL. / à 68 St. / GB: 1798.
  • scale, top centre: paper scale in Amsterdam feet
  • label, bottom right:272 former inventory label

Conservation

  • Ab Hoving, augustus 2010: minor repairs; retouched; revarnished

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-272-2

Entry

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. The quarterdeck is outlined by ribbands with square hances, some ribbands are missing. The sheer rises only slightly towards both ends. Two wales and a sheer rail are indicated, all are painted black. The bow features an empty beakhead with two cheeks positioned directly on the beakhead, a beakhead bulkhead, part of a beakhead platform and two large bollard timbers. 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 rather sharp and painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

Although Obreen mentions only one model,1J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 272. two models carry catalogue number 272: this one and model NG-MC-273. The inscriptions on this model only partly match the description by Obreen and were probably erroneously added afterwards; two of them probably belong to model NG-MC-273 instead.2J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 273. Three 68-gun ships, all 180 feet long, were built after this model by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam: Doggersbank (1797-1839), renamed Zeeland in 1814, Joan de Wit (1798-1817) and Neptunus (1798).3A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 2, 6.

Scale (on model) 1:50.

Literature

J.P. Asmus, Genealogie van de schepen ten oorlog gebouwd bij de respectieve Admiraliteiten ... beginnende met den Jaar 1654, s.l. [1817], manuscript in HNA 1.01.47.36 Admiraliteitscolleges, Losse aanwinsten, inv. no. 17; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 272; CNSM 1928, p. 78, fig. 33; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 2, 6

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 68-Gun Ship of the Line, Netherlands, c. 1797 - c. 1798', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053589

(accessed 16 December 2025 21:46:32).

Footnotes

  • 1J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 272.
  • 2J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 273.
  • 3A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 2, 6.