Object data
wood and brass
height 2.8 cm × width 18.5 cm × depth 3.3 cm
anonymous
Model of an Anchor Release
? Netherlands, United Kingdom, c. 1826
Inscriptions
- label: 634 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-634
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a cathead with anchor release gear.
A swallow runs straight through the cathead, with a brass mounting above with a turning catch half covering it. To the side, the cathead has a brass thumb cleat. Its operation is not fully understood.
For this object Obreen does not specify its maker.1 However, W. van Houten’s model (NG-MC-663) is mentioned in the archives together with a model by Thomas Brunton (incorrectly spelled ‘Burton’).2 On the model of the East Indiaman Vergelijking (NG-MC-658) two catheads with an anchor release gear by Brunton are installed.
Scale unknown.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 634; J.H. Harland, Seamanship in the Age of Sail, London 1984, p. 243
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of an Anchor Release, Netherlands, c. 1826', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244449
(accessed 24 November 2024 03:44:17).