Object data
wood and paint
height 35 cm × width 19.5 cm × depth 18 cm
Rijkswerf Vlissingen
Model of a Figurehead
Flushing, 1847
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-242
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Polychromed model of a figurehead on the knee of the head, mounted on a wooden backboard.
The figure itself is missing. It is known from old photographs to have been a male torso in armour with a crowned helmet.
This model showed the figurehead of the frigate _Prins van Oranje _of 60 guns, 54 metres long, built in Rotterdam by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) as Waal from 1828 to 1840. It was renamed Prins van Oranje in 1844 and sold for breaking up in 1897.1
Although the figurehead is missing from the model, the original figurehead of the 60-gun frigate Waal is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum as model NG-NM-11549.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 242; J.C. Mollema, Geschiedenis van Nederland ter zee, 4 vols., Amsterdam 1939-42, vol. 3; 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, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Model of a Figurehead, Flushing, 1847', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244054
(accessed 26 April 2024 02:50:35).