Object data
wood, brass and copper
height 85 cm × width 34 cm × depth 34 cm × width 30 cm
Rijkswerf Vlissingen
Model of a Land Beacon
Flushing, 1855
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the base: Beganen Grond.
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-834
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of the iron landmark or beacon of Vlieland, mounted on a square base.
The base is open, exposing the foundations of the beacon. The beacon is a frame of metal screens made from plates and reinforced with torsion bars. The large top screen is square.
Common wooden land beacons were replaced by iron ones in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Scale unknown.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 834; E. Knol, ‘De ijzeren zeekaap in het Reddingmuseum’, Vriendennieuws Nationaal Reddingmuseum 82 (2013), pp. 4-5
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Model of a Land Beacon, Flushing, 1855', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244648
(accessed 26 November 2024 12:55:33).