Half Model of a 44-Gun Frigate

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-293

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. Twenty-two gun ports are indicated by white frames on the upper deck and quarterdeck, some of which are now damaged or missing. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends. One wale and a sheer rail are indicated, both are painted black. The bow features an empty beakhead. 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 S-bottomed and is painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

The number of gun ports seems to be at odds with Obreen’s identification of this model as a 32-gun frigate.¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 293.

Scale unknown.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 293

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 44-Gun Frigate, Netherlands, c. 1780 - c. 1825', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244104