Object data
wood, brass and tarred rope
model: height 60.5 cm × width 56.6 cm × depth 28 cm
packaging capsule: height 50 cm × width 30.5 cm × depth 60 cm
anonymous
Model of the Cross Section of a Ship, with Pumps
Netherlands, 1820 - 1850
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1014
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Frame model of the cross section of a ship, mounted on a base, showing two decks, a mast, two pumps, two gun ports to either side of the upper deck and two side lights to either side on the lower deck. The pumps are combined with a lever beam. The mast can be set at different positions by rearranging the loose parts of the two decks’ mast partners and the mast step, which is set between sister keelsons. Parts of the decks can be removed.
Scale unknown.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1014
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of the Cross Section of a Ship, with Pumps, Netherlands, 1820 - 1850', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244829
(accessed 15 November 2024 08:01:34).