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

Object number: NG-MC-273

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. Thirty-two gun ports are indicated by white frames in three tiers. The model does not indicate the forecastle, whereas the quarterdeck is outlined by ribbands with square hances. The sheer rises only slightly towards both ends and 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 a knighthead. 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 round and painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

Two of the inscriptions on model NG-MC-272-2 probably belong to this model. According to Obreen three 68-gun ships, all 180 feet long, were built after this model in 1798: Revolutie, built by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam, Schrikverwekker, by R. Dorsman in Amsterdam and Pluto, by Pieter Schuijt Jr (active 1796-1841) in Flushing.¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 273.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 273

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 68-Gun Ship of the Line, Netherlands, c. 1798', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053590