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

Object number: NG-MC-1196

Wooden ‘bread-and-butter’ style half block model of the port side of a single-masted cutter, mounted on a framed rectangular wooden backboard, painted white and blue.

The planking of the side above the waterline is painted black. The deck is closed and flush with the side. The model has a vertical stem and a counter stern with a small, flat taffrail. The sternpost is very much raked and fitted with a square-headed rudder with a rounded blade. The sheer rises forward. The wale and rail cap have been left unpainted. The hull has a V-shape and is not painted below the waterline, exposing the ‘bread-and-butter’ style planking. The keel drops significantly towards the stern. The rig is detailed with a single mast and booms, and an almost vertical bowsprit that lies next to the stem; all of the rigging is shown in a truncated form. The backboard is painted blue and white, indicating the waterline.

The original inventory provides the dimensions (18 metres long) and scale,¹¹J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1196. but not the origin of the model. It is very similar to model NG-MC-1190, so much so, that it is almost certainly by the same hand.

Scale (according to Obreen)²²J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1196. 1:40.

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1196

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'possibly J. Bos, Half Model of a Pilot Cutter, Flushing, 1866', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20054168