Object data
wood, brass, iron and rope
height 61 cm × width 94.7 cm × depth 5 cm
anonymous
Level
? Netherlands, 1750 - 1880
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889
Object number: NG-MC-1889-21
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Levelling instrument consisting of a plumb line on a wooden board.
The board is triangular with scalloped sides and a straight base. From the upper corner a line is drawn perpendicular to the base and the plumb line is hung. At the base is a small indentation in which the brass plumb is caught, behind an iron brace, when the instrument is not in use. To the back at the top is a hook.
Levels like these were standard shipwright’s equipment for centuries.
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Level, Netherlands, 1750 - 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.245257
(accessed 15 November 2024 09:48:16).