Model of a Ship's Bow in Frames

...; 's Lands Werf (Navy dockyard) Amsterdam, 18 April 1798;¹¹HNA 2.01.29.02 Dept. Marine, Aanhangsel I, inv. no. 20, La. K3 no. 8. Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague; transferred to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-86

Technical model of a ship’s bow covering four station frames. Two bollard timbers; three hawse pieces on either side; vertical filling frames below the breasthook; curved stem; two decks are schematically indicated; four station frames, one in detail (five parts); seven ribbands replace the planking. One top timber is damaged. The frames are constructed in a traditional eighteenth-century fashion, but for the hawse pieces and bollard timbers a new construction has been applied.²²J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 86.

Dockyard Superintendent Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1755-1837) mentions this model in a list of objects that were transferred to him by his predecessor Jan Binkes in 1798.³³HNA 2.01.29.02 Dept. Marine, Aanhangsel I, inv. no. 20, La. K3 no. 8. The model was displayed at the International Ship Model Exhibition in London in 1882.⁴⁴Catalogue of the International Ship Model Exhibition, exh. cat. London (?) 1882, no. 155.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 86; Catalogue of the International Ship Model Exhibition, exh. cat. London [?] 1882, no. 155.

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Ship's Bow in Frames, Netherlands, c. 1820 - c. 1845', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242811