Object data
brass, wood and glass
model: height 99 cm × diameter 25.5 cm × height 102 cm
packaging capsule: width 28.5 cm × depth 28.5 cm
J.L. Nering Bögel & Co.
Deventer, Netherlands, 1875
brass, wood and glass
model: height 99 cm × diameter 25.5 cm × height 102 cm
packaging capsule: width 28.5 cm × depth 28.5 cm
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1387
Copyright: Public domain
Brass model of the lighthouse at Scheveningen, mounted on a wooden pedestal.
The model is closed and twelve-sided, has a door at each side and sixteen windows. The doors and windows have pointed arches with trefoils. Above each door an inscription is placed. The top has a dome-shaped roof with a weathervane shaped as an arrow.
The lighthouse of Scheveningen was built by the firm Gieterij Nering Bögel from Deventer in 1875 and was made entirely of cast iron. It was 30 metres high with a diameter varying from 7.3 metres at the base to 3 metres at the top.
Scale (derived) 1:30.
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1387; H. van Suchtelen, De bouwwijze van de Scheveningse vuurtoren, Scheveningen 1975; L. Crommelin and H. van Suchtelen, Nederlandse vuurtorens. Bouw en organisatie, Nieuwkoop 1978, p. 81, no. 94; W.J. van Heuvel, ‘Vuurtorens en het bouwen met gietijzer’, Polytechnisch Tijdschrift. Bouwkunde, wegen- en waterbouw 33 (1978), no. 11, pp. 648-58; R. van der Veen, Vuurtorens. Over vierboeten, lichtwachters en markante bouwwerken, Groningen/Bussum 1981, pp. 31, 72; B.S. Kapsenberg, Uit ijzer gegoten. Beeld van de Deventer ijzergieterij Nering-Bögel en haar produkten (1756-1932), Zutphen 1982, pp. 71-72; W. Burgers, ‘De ontwerper van de ijzeren vuurtorens. Levensbericht van Quirinus Harder (1801-1880)’, Erfgoed van Industrie en Techniek 6 (1997), no. 2, pp. 59-63
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'J.L. Nering Bögel & Co., Model of a Lighthouse, Deventer, 1875', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245192
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