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

Object number: NG-MC-304

Polychromed fully planked wooden half bracket model of the port side of a ship, mounted on a small wooden backboard.

The side of the ship is fully planked on top of frame moulds. Twenty-two pierced gun ports are situated on the two gun decks and the quarterdeck. The last port on the lower deck has a port-lid. The sides of the forecastle and quarterdeck are painted black, the quarterdeck bullwark is painted a dark blue. The quarterdeck and poop hances are decorated with carved floral volutes as their hancing pieces. The forecastle and poop both have railings. The model has a fore channel, the main and mizzen channels are continuous. Ahead of the main channel entering steps are placed. The sheer rises aft. Two wales and the sheer rail are indicated; the wales are painted black. The damaged bow does feature a beakhead with a carved figurehead depicting a rampant crowned lion, two hawseholes, a beakhead bulkhead and a red cathead; its knee is missing. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The damaged taffrail and the quarter and stern galleries are decorated with yellow carvings. The lower finishing of the quarter gallery is a floral garland. The model does not have a rudder. The hull is S-bottomed and painted white below the waterline. No masts or bowsprit.

This model was identified by elimination only and its identification therefore remains uncertain.¹¹A. Lemmers (ed.), Maritime Technology from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: Multimedia Catalogue of the Dutch Navy Model Collection 1698-1889, coll. cat. Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum) 1995, no. 304. According to Obreen this model, number 304, represents the 40-gun frigate Tholen, 149 feet long, built in Zeeland in 1782.²²J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 304; HNA 1.01.47.36 Admiraliteitscolleges, Losse Aanwinsten, inv. no. 17, Genealogie Asmus.

Scale unknown.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 304; A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, pp. 133-34

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 40-Gun Frigate, Netherlands, c. 1782', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200414041