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While archaeologists have found ship and boat models from societies all around the Mediterranean, the three of the most prolific ship model building cultures were the Greeks, Phoenicians, and Egyptians.
We know of one professional ship model-maker in the 18th century – Allan Hunt – but there may have been more. Materials. Fine-grained fruit woods were generally used to make ship models because they carve well. Pear is perhaps the most common but, for example, the hull of Britannia (1719) is pine.
Ships are complex artifacts, conceived and built to operate between two environments – water and air – with different viscosities, weights, and dynamics. To understand the evolution of shipbuilding we must use written documents, iconography, and archaeological remains.
2 Ιουλ 2019 · Ship models may never have the emotional or imaginative power of a seascape painting by Ivan Aivazovsky. Even so, they can be a delight to look at. Dutch models from the 19th and 18th centuries are so well crafted that they bring to life real ships and boats that have long passed into oblivion.
It is the oldest ship model in Europe, dating back more than six centuries. And it has been made extremely accurately. The Mataró model means much the same to the Maritime Museum as Rembrandt’s Nightwatch does to the Rijksmuseum.
The earliest objects date from the 17th and 18th century, such as the more than four-metre long model of the William Rex, a ship of the line from 1698, and several models of Dutch East Indiamen. The Department of the Navy transferred almost its entire model collection to Rijksmuseum during the 1880s.
One of the oldest and most famous medieval ship models in Western culture is the Mataró. Presently housed in the Maritime Museum Rotterdam based in the Netherlands, this Mediterranean trading ship was built in the 15th century according to recent carbon date testing.
