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

Object number: NG-MC-960

Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the port side of a three-masted ship, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard.

The side is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds. No gun ports have been indicated. The forecastle and quarterdeck are outlined by ribbands and have square hances. The bow features only a stempost and two large bollard timbers. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The model has no taffrail, galleries or rudder. The sheer rises towards both ends. Two wales and a sheer rail are indicated, painted black. The hull is S-bottomed and painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

Scale unknown.

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 960

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a Ship, Netherlands, c. 1750 - c. 1820', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20054033