Object data
wood and brass
height 14 cm × width 35.3 cm × depth 19.2 cm
's Lands Werf Amsterdam (possibly)
Model of a Cart
? Amsterdam, France, c. 1797 - c. 1801
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, May 1995: minor repairs
Provenance
...; 's Lands Werf (Navy dockyard) Amsterdam, 1801;1 Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague; transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-73
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Construction model of a four-wheeled cart. The front wheels are steerable. The cart has no floor but is equipped with a windlass fore and aft, of which several lever arms are missing.
Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1755-1837) observed this type of cart during his voyage to France in 1797, where it was used for the transportation of cannon, anchors and other heavy loads between Versailles and Paris.2 He mentions the model as part of the model collection of the Amsterdam Navy dockyard in 1801.3
Literature
J.P. Asmus, Rapport van een reize naar de Fransche zeehavens aan den Oceaan in den jaar 1797, op ordre van het Bataafsche Gouvernement-Verzameling van differente stukken gedurende de reize naar de Fransche zeehavens in den Oceaan in den jaare 1797, 2 vols., s.l. 1797-1801, manuscript in HNA 2.01.29.01 Dept. Marine, inv. no. 451-18, vol. 2, pp. 114-15; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 73; A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, p. 91
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'possibly 's Lands Werf Amsterdam, Model of a Cart, Amsterdam, c. 1797 - c. 1801', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242798
(accessed 23 November 2024 00:09:01).