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anonymous

Fragment of a Ship Flag

England, c. 1630 - c. 1707

Object data

wool

height 297 cm × width 297 cm

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889

Object number: NG-MC-1889-83-21

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Fragment of the lower hoist of a blue ensign.

This is an English blue ensign from the period c. 1630-1707.

Literature

W.G. Perrin, ‘British Naval Ensigns’, The Mariner’s Mirror 1 (1911), no. 7, pp. 167-72; M. van den Brandhof, Vlaggen, vaandels en standaarden van het Rijksmuseum. Een geïllustreerde catalogus, Amsterdam 1977, no. 125; T. Wilson, Flags at Sea, London 1986, pp. 18, 25-26, fig. 25c

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Fragment of a Ship Flag, England, c. 1630 - c. 1707', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245340

(accessed 23 April 2024 09:10:52).

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