Object data
wood and brass
model: height 16.2 cm × width 28.2 cm × depth 20 cm
packaging capsule: height 24 cm × width 31.5 cm × depth 23.5 cm
L. Cramer
Model of a Colour Mill
Rijkswerf (Hellevoetsluis), Rijkswerf (Hellevoetsluis), 1842
Inscriptions
- label, left corner: 71 former inventory label
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, November 1997: minor repairs; revarnished
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-71
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Demonstration model of a double colour mill, which can be operated by one person only, mounted on a base. By means of a crank, a flywheel and gear train, two millstones are driven to grind two pigments simultaneously.
This mill was invented by L. Groeneveld, foreman of the smiths working at the dockyard of Hellevoetsluis, where it was installed. L. Cramer worked as a carpenter at the same dockyard and was promoted for making this model.1
Scale (according to Obreen)2 1:10.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 71; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, p. 235
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'L. Cramer, Model of a Colour Mill, Rijkswerf (Hellevoetsluis), 1842', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242796
(accessed 27 November 2024 14:05:55).