Model van een voorschip in spanten

anoniem, ca. 1820 - ca. 1845

Technisch model van een voorschip over de lengte van vier spanten van oprichting. Twee apostelen; drie kluisplaten aan weerszijden; onder de band verticale vulstukken; gebogen voorsteven. Twee dekken zijn schematisch aangegeven. Vier spanten van oprichting, één in detail uitgewerkt (5 delen). Zeven senten. Eén stut is afgebroken.

  • Soort kunstwerkinstructiemodel
  • ObjectnummerNG-MC-86
  • Afmetingenhoogte 28,2 cm x breedte 20,5 cm x diepte 29,3 cm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenhout

anonymous

Model of a Ship's Bow in Frames

Netherlands, c. 1820 - c. 1845

Inscriptions

  • label, on the bow:86 former inventory label

Provenance

…; 's Lands Werf (Navy dockyard) Amsterdam, 18 April 1798;1HNA 2.01.29.02 Dept. Marine, Aanhangsel I, inv. no. 20, La. K3 no. 8. Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague; transferred to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-86

Entry

Technical model of a ship’s bow covering four station frames. Two bollard timbers; three hawse pieces on either side; vertical filling frames below the breasthook; curved stem; two decks are schematically indicated; four station frames, one in detail (five parts); seven ribbands replace the planking. One top timber is damaged. The frames are constructed in a traditional eighteenth-century fashion, but for the hawse pieces and bollard timbers a new construction has been applied.2J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 86.

Dockyard Superintendent Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1755-1837) mentions this model in a list of objects that were transferred to him by his predecessor Jan Binkes in 1798.3HNA 2.01.29.02 Dept. Marine, Aanhangsel I, inv. no. 20, La. K3 no. 8. The model was displayed at the International Ship Model Exhibition in London in 1882.4Catalogue of the International Ship Model Exhibition, exh. cat. London (?) 1882, no. 155.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 86; Catalogue of the International Ship Model Exhibition, exh. cat. London [?] 1882, no. 155.

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Ship's Bow in Frames, Netherlands, c. 1820 - c. 1845', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053233

(accessed 12 December 2025 07:18:57).

Footnotes

  • 1HNA 2.01.29.02 Dept. Marine, Aanhangsel I, inv. no. 20, La. K3 no. 8.
  • 2J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 86.
  • 3HNA 2.01.29.02 Dept. Marine, Aanhangsel I, inv. no. 20, La. K3 no. 8.
  • 4Catalogue of the International Ship Model Exhibition, exh. cat. London (?) 1882, no. 155.