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

Object number: NG-MC-282

Polychromed wooden half bracket model, fully planked, of the starboard side of a three-masted ship, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard painted white.

The side of the ship is fully planked over frames and painted black, with two white bands spanning the gun deck and main deck. Forty-six shadowed gun ports are indicated in three tiers. The forecastle, quarterdeck and poop are fully detailed with square hances. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends. Two wales and a sheer rail are indicated. The bow features a fully detailed beakhead with a carved figurehead, painted white and depicting a crowned man standing on an eagle, with a sceptre in his right hand and a bundle of flames in his left, a beakhead bulkhead and a platform, a black knighthead and a cathead decorated with a gold-painted lion’s head. The stern is round and the elaborately decorated taffrail has two storeys and a semi-circular stern gallery at the middle level. The upper storey has a sternwalk above the gallery, supported by decorated knees. The helm port and a straight, square-headed rudder are specified below the stern gallery. The hull is rather flat and painted a metallic copper colour below the waterline, but the stern is very sharp. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form. The model has all its channels and deadeyes. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

The 74-gun ship of the line Jupiter, 54.16 metres long, was built after this model by Pieter Schuijt Juniorsz (1797-1885) in Amsterdam from 1825 to 1833.¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 282. Jupiter was renamed Kortenaar in 1844 and decommissioned in 1879.²²A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 3.

Scale (on model) 1:50.

R.F.S. Blake, ‘Eene verbetering in de gedaante van de voorboegen der oorlogsschepen’, Verhandelingen en berigten betrekkelijk het zeewezen (1832), no. 1, pp. 242 ff.; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 282; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 3

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 74-Gun Ship of the Line, Netherlands, c. 1825 - c. 1833', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053600