Half Model of a Jolly Boat

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-976

Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the starboard side of a dinghy, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard.

The side of the vessel is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds, the gunwale is planked. The model has a pointed bow; the stern has a square tuck and a flat transom. The stem is curved, the sternpost is straight and fitted with a broad rudder. The sheer rises towards both ends. One wale is indicated. The hull is round, with a keel that is much broader in the middle than at the ends and painted white below the waterline.

Scale (derived) approx. 1:20.

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 976

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a Jolly Boat, Netherlands, c. 1780 - c. 1820', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244790