Object data
wood and brass
height 20.2 cm × width 46.6 cm × depth 20 cm
anonymous
Model of a Caisson and Lock Gate
Netherlands, Netherlands, c. 1798
Inscriptions
- label, bottom centre: 11 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-11
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Wooden frame model of a treble-keeled caisson with a lock gate.
One side is planked, the other is open. In the middle of the caisson there is a double lock gate, on either side of which there is a flooding chamber.
In 1798, the western harbour at Medemblik was transformed into a naval basin to a design by Pieter Glavimans (1755-1820); the model, representing the lock gate of the basin,1 probably dates from this time.
A very similar model of a caisson is model NG-NM-11408, while the original plans of the caisson are in the collection of the Maritiem Museum in Rotterdam.2
Scale unknown.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 11; P.M. Bosscher, ‘Marinegebouwen’, in P. Nijhof and J.M. Bos (eds.), Monumenten van bedrijf en techniek, Zutphen 1978, pp. 187-214, p. 199; G.J. Arends, ‘De ontwikkeling van sluisdeuren in Nederland’, Erfgoed van Industrie en Techniek 3 (1994), no. 2, pp. 73-89
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Caisson and Lock Gate, Netherlands, c. 1798', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242736
(accessed 4 January 2025 04:34:41).