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Half model of a floating 32-gun artillery battery
Also titled Halfmodel van het voorschip van een drijvende batterij van 32 stukken
1861
- Medium
- wood (plant material), brass (alloy)
- Classification
- scale model
- Dimensions
- height 28.4 cm x width 130.2 cm x depth 24 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The Royal Netherlands Navy converted wooden ships of the line into floating batteries, hoping to give these expensive vessels a second lease of life as artillery plat-forms for the defence of Dutch river estuaries and inland waterways. This model represents the battery Neptunus, which was fitted with 32 guns. The Neptunus was origi-nally built as a ship of the line with the same name.
