Object data
wood, brass, iron, rope, textile and paint
model: height 33 cm
model front: width 391.2 cm
model back: width 391.7 cm
model left side: depth 198.4 cm
model right side: depth 198.6 cm
base board: width 215 cm × depth 408.2 cm
K. Vermaes
Model of the Navy Dockyard at Hellevoetsluis
Rijkswerf (Hellevoetsluis), 2006
Conservation
- H. Ketting, 1980: restored
- G. Calkoen, 1982: restored
- Ab Hoving, March 2007: five new ship models added (frigate, brig, pilot, cutter, ship on the stocks)
Provenance
...; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1834;1 transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Polychromed model showing the layout of the Navy dockyard of Hellevoetsluis with part of the town and fortifications.
The small town lies to either side of the entrance of the basin, which has a double lock gate and a swing bridge. After a narrow section, in which a model of a rigged three-masted ship lies, the basin widens with a broad curve towards the north-west, with dockyard buildings, slipways and sheers to either side. The basin is occupied by a couple of workboats and a three-masted ship with its topmasts taken down. At the north-west corner of the basin a double dry dock is indicated,2 containing the hull of a three-masted ship. The ramparts of the fortifications are indicated on the west side of the model.
This model of the dockyard was made by K. Vermaes from 1828 to 1830,3 with additions until 1847 and in 2006.4 The Koninklijk Museum in The Hague expressed its interest in the model in 1829, but instead it was transferred to the Navy Model Room in 1834.5
Scale (derived) 1:225.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 1; N. de Roy van Zuydewijn, Verschanste schoonheid. Een verrassende ontdekkingstocht langs historische verdedigingswerken in Nederland, Amsterdam 1977, pp. 114-17; J.F. Grosfeld, Het droogdok te Hellevoetsluis, Hellevoetsluis 1986; R.M. Haubourdin et al., De physique existentie dezes lands. Jan Blanken, inspecteur-generaal van de waterstaat (1755-1838), exh. cat. Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum) 1987, pp. 164-85; H. Stevens (ed.), The Art of Technology: The Navy Model Collection in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam/Wormer 1995, pp. 34-37; A.J. Hoving, ‘Een lege haven is geen haven’, in G. van der Ham and E. Sint Nicolaas (eds.), Buitengaats. Vierentwintig verhalen over havens, Amsterdam 2008, pp. 42-45; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, pp. 168-73; H. van der Biezen, ‘Hellevoetsluis’, Scheepshistorie 15 (2013), pp. 32-47
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'K. Vermaes, Model of the Navy Dockyard at Hellevoetsluis, Rijkswerf (Hellevoetsluis), 1828 - 1830', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242726
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