Object data
brass and wood
model: height 155 cm × diameter 35.5 cm × height 161 cm
packaging capsule: width 40.5 cm × depth 40.5 cm
Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij Fijenoord
Model of a Lighthouse
Netherlands, 1879
Inscriptions
- inscription, above the door: ONDER DE REGERING VAN / Z.M. WILLEM III/ Koning der Nederlanden / enz: enz: enz: / OPGERIGT VOOR VAST LICHT / TWEEDE GROOTTE / 1879 VERVAARDIGD / aan het / ETABLISSEMENT TE FIJENOORD / DER / NEDERLANDSCHE / STOOMBOOT MAATSCHAPPIJ / 1879
Conservation
- Richard Schoevaart, October 1995: railing reconstructed; waxed
- Richard Schoevaart, December 1997: four windows reconstructed; sixty new rings added; cleaned; base revarnished
- Restauratieatelier Scheepsmodellen, 2000: restored
- Auke Gerrits, March 2012: top reconstructed
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1413
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Brass model of the lighthouse on Padang Island (Poeloe Pandan) near Sumatra, mounted on a wooden pedestal.
The model is closed and twelve-sided, has a door and thirty windows. Above and below the door the inscriptions are placed. Part of the wall near the base is left out to show the two lower storeys with stairs and with a column in the centre. The top has a dome-shaped roof with a weathervane shaped as an arrow.
The 63 metres tall Poeloe Pandan lighthouse was built by the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij Fijenoord in Rotterdam in 1879 and was made entirely of cast iron. Cast iron lighthouses for the Dutch East Indies were shipped in parts from the Netherlands to be assembled on the spot.
Scale (estimate) approx. 1:40.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1413; Encyclopedie Nederlands Indië, s.l. 1918, vol. 2, p. 494; W. Steffens, Kort overzicht uit de geschiedenis der bebakening van vaarwaters, reeden, enz. in den O.I. archipel, s.l. 1926; L. Crommelin and H. van Suchtelen, Nederlandse vuurtorens. Bouw en organisatie, Nieuwkoop 1978, pp. 44-46; A. Gerrits, Restauratieverslag Lichthuis Vuurtoren MC 1413, Amsterdam 2012, manuscript in RMA, folder NG-MC-1413
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij Fijenoord, Model of a Lighthouse, Netherlands, 1879', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245217
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