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

Object number: NG-MC-274

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-nine gun ports are indicated by white frames in three tiers, some of which are now missing. The forecastle and quarterdeck are outlined by ribbands with square hances. The sheer rises towards both ends. Two wales and a sheer rail are indicated, all are painted black. The bow features an empty beakhead with one curved cheek indicated 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. The straight, square-headed rudder has a long head, probably to take two tillers. The hull is round and is painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

Obreen describes this model as a 74-gun ship of the line,¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 274. the number of gun ports on the model however suggests an 80-gun vessel.

Scale unknown.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 274

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of an 80-Gun Ship of the Line, Netherlands, c. 1790 - c. 1820', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053591