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

Object number: NG-MC-399

Polychromed fully planked half bracket model of the starboard side of a two-masted ship, mounted on a backboard with a stand.

The side of the ship is fully planked over frame moulds and painted black. The deck is closed. The sheer is virtually flat and only rises at the bow. The sheer line is painted white. The wale cannot be distinguished from the planking. The clipper bow features a hawsehole that is decorated with gold-painted foliage. The bowsprit is almost vertical and rests on a knee. The stern is elliptical and bears the coat of arms of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Below the stern a round-headed rudder with a rounded blade is indicated. The hull is sharply S-bottomed and painted a metallic copper colour below the waterline. The keel is not straight but rises at both ends. The position of two masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form. Both masts rake considerably.

The 1-gun schooner Atalante, 24 metres long, was built by P.A. Bruyn in Flushing in 1850.¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 399. Atalante is not mentioned in the Navy records after 1866.²²A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 31.

Scale (on model) 1:40.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 399; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 31

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 1-Gun Schooner, Flushing, c. 1850', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200315771