Object data
brass and wood
height 148.5 cm × diameter 33.7 cm
height 154.5 cm × width 38.6 cm × depth 38.6 cm
Gieterij Nering Bögel
Model of a Lighthouse
? Deventer, Netherlands, 1880
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1421
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Brass model of the Ameland lighthouse, mounted on a wooden pedestal.
The model is closed and round, has a door and twenty-six windows. Part of the wall near the base has been omitted to show the second storey with a central column. The top has a round balcony with a protruding door, and a dome-shaped roof with a weathervane shaped as an arrow.
The Ameland lighthouse was built by the firm Gieterij Nering Bögel from Deventer in 1880 and was made entirely of cast iron. It had a height of 48 metres and a diameter of 9.24 metres.
Scale (estimate) approx. 1:30.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1421; L. Crommelin and H. van Suchtelen, Nederlandse vuurtorens. Bouw en organisatie, Nieuwkoop 1978, p. 74; W.J. van Heuvel, ‘Vuurtorens en het bouwen met gietijzer’, Polytechnisch Tijdschrift. Bouwkunde, wegen- en waterbouw 33 (1978), no. 11, pp. 648-58; B.S. Kapsenberg, Uit ijzer gegoten. Beeld van de Deventer ijzergieterij Nering-Bögel en haar produkten (1756-1932), Zutphen 1982, pp. 78-79; 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
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Gieterij Nering Bögel, Model of a Lighthouse, Deventer, 1880', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245225
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