Object data
paper
height 46.1 cm × width 33.2 cm
Maurits Verveer
Photograph of Three Signalling Horns
The Hague, 1877
Inscriptions
- inscription, bottom centre: Acoùstische Mist en Kùst Signaaltoestellen. / waarmede waarnemingen gedaan werden te IJmuiden aan Zee. / 29 Sept: 1877.
- inscription, on the back: L.J. Lefèbre. / PROFESSEUR D’ACOUSTIQUE. / Ten geschenke aangeboden aan de Model / Zaal (Departement van Marine) te ‘sHage / 21 november 1877.
Provenance
...; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 21 November 1877;1 transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1397
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Framed black-and-white photograph of three signalling horns against a dark background. One is a simple trumpet-shaped foghorn with a mouthpiece, bearing the inscription ‘1A / HELICON’. This is exactly the same type of foghorn as NG-MC-1375.
The other two signalling horns consist of a box with a horn on top; the one bearing the inscription ‘FOGHORN / CAECILIA / and / HELICON. / Système Lefèbre / The Hague’ has a mouthpiece; the other one is a steamhorn bearing the inscription ‘sTOOMHOORN Sijsteem Lefèbre. / s Gravenhage’.
According to the inscriptions these horns were tested at IJmuiden on the Dutch North Sea coast on 29 September 1877. The photograph was presented by Professor L.J. Lefèbre to the Navy Model Room on 21 November 1877.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1397
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Maurits Verveer, Photograph of Three Signalling Horns, The Hague, 1877', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245201
(accessed 26 November 2024 18:43:17).