Title(s)

Documents Describing the Manufacture of British Ordnance in 1778

Object type

• document

Object number

NG-MC-1130-B

Inscriptions / marks

• signature, in the bottom right corner of the third document: ‘Verbruggen’
• inscription: ‘1. Section of the 12 part of an heavy 6pr Representing the plainest manner to point a Gun. 2. Proportion of a very good Piece of Canon, & the best manner for dividing the / Same. 3. Table of the Length, Weight & Calibre of the Brass Ordnances. of each / Nature, according to the present Establishment in Great Britain 1778... 4. Continuation of the Table, of the Diameter of the Brass Guns, Mortars. / & Houwitzers.’, headings of the four documents

Description

Vier documenten met beschrijvingen van Engels geschut uit 1778 (zie opschriften), twee ervan zijn van een tekening voorzien (1 & 2). De vier documenten waren in de valse bodem van de kist gevonden.

Artist

• Pieter Verbruggen (1735-1786)
• Jan Verbruggen

Place

United Kingdom

Dating

1778

Physical features

paper

Material

• paper

When

• 1778 - 1778

Where

• Enkhuizen

Who

• Admiraliteit van het Noorderkwartier

Acquisition

transferred 1883

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Is part of

• Chest with six artillery models (NG-MC-1130-A)

• Modellen vertellen, Ab J. Hoving, p. 76-79 met afb.
• Techniek in schoonheid, Harm Stevens, p. 24-25
• The art of gunfounding, Carel de Beer
• The Armouries of the Tower of London, I, Howard Loftus Blackmore, p. 77
• J.B. Kist, 'De harpoentorpedo van Robert Fulton', De wapenverzamelaar (1982).