Object data
wood, brass, copper, textile and rope
length 120 cm × diameter 9.1 cm
anonymous
Model of a Windsail
Netherlands, Netherlands, c. 1850 - c. 1870
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1231
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a windsail. It has five wooden hoops covered with rope. The top section, between the first two hoops, consists of four sheets of cloth sewn together to form a cross: thus four entrances are created, one for each direction of the wind. The lower section is a cloth ventilation shaft strengthened with hoops.
F.W.J. Meijer’s design was inspired by the ventilator for mineshafts described by Agricola.1 Meijer’s windsails were used successfully on guard ships in Batavia and Surabaya.
Scale (according to Obreen)2 1:10.
Literature
G. Agricola, De re metallica, (s.l. 1556) New York 1950 (trans. H.C. Hoover and L.H. Hoover); J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1231; E. Pade, Kulsejlet og andre æeldre ventilations-systemer. En kulturhistorisk skitse, Copenhagen 1972, fig. on p. 41
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Windsail, Netherlands, c. 1850 - c. 1870', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245043
(accessed 27 December 2024 14:00:06).