Object data
iron, zinc and wood
model: height 52 cm × width 40 cm × depth 38.7 cm
packaging capsule: height 55 cm × width 43.5 cm × depth 44 cm
Enthoven & Co. (attributed to)
The Hague, The Hague, c. 1866
iron, zinc and wood
model: height 52 cm × width 40 cm × depth 38.7 cm
packaging capsule: height 55 cm × width 43.5 cm × depth 44 cm
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1194
Copyright: Public domain
Model of a light beacon with light, mounted on a base.
The model consists of a metal framework on four feet. The stairs have a landing halfway and run up to the top floor through a trapdoor. On the top floor a small cabin with trapezoidal floorplan is erected. In each of the diagonal sides a door is indicated, and in the short side a small window with a hexagonal table outside for a lamp.
The identification of this model is based on probability. In 1866, Enthoven & Co presented a model of a light beacon with a light to the Navy Model Room:1 this might be the model referred to here. The original inventory describes it as a proposal:2 it is unknown whether it was ever executed at full scale.
Scale (derived) 1:20.
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1194
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'attributed to Enthoven & Co., Model of a Light Beacon, The Hague, c. 1866', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245007
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