Object data
wood, iron and brass
total: length 18.4 cm
anchor stock: width 17.4 cm
span 13.1 cm
anonymous
Model of an Anchor
Netherlands, c. 1850
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, February 2009: minor repairs, metal cleaned; revarnished
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-605
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a chain anchor, consisting of a shank with a bent arm with flukes and a wooden anchor stock and a shackle for a ring.
The shank of chain anchors was shorter and heavier than in common anchors to compensate for the weight of the chain. The puddened anchor ring has been replaced by a shackle.1
Scale (estimate) 1:10.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 605; J.C. Pilaar, Handleiding tot de kennis van het tuig, de masten, zeilen, enz. van het schip, Amsterdam 1858 (3rd ed. rev. by G.P.J. Mossel), pp. 389-90, fig. 127; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, pp. 200-03
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of an Anchor, Netherlands, c. 1850', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244420
(accessed 26 November 2024 11:35:25).