Rijksmuseum

Object data

iron, brass and wood

model: height 57 cm × width 57.2 cm × depth 40 cm
packaging capsule: height 66.5 cm × width 61 cm × depth 46 cm

Inscriptions

inscription, on the base: MODEL VAN EENE METAALBOORMACHINE.

Provenance

...; ? collection Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1765-1837), Amsterdam, 1807;¹ Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague; transferred to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-68

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Elegantly ornamented drilling frame mounted on a wooden base. The machine is hand-driven with a crank, the gear train has a ratio of five to one. The drill shaft can be pushed downwards by operating a lever at the top, which can be weighted with heavy loads. To lift the shaft there is a forked lever about halfway the shaft. The drill chuck has a square opening for the gimlets, which are missing. There is a hole in the base beneath the drill shaft.

There are several candidates for this drilling machine:² Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1755-1837) mentions a drilling machine as part of his private collection in 1807,³ but in 1812 a drilling machine was also sent from Paris to the artillery park of the Amsterdam dockyard. In 1819, Gerard Moritz Roentgen (1795-1852) ordered a model of a drilling apparatus to be made in Portsmouth, which he then sent to the Netherlands. This model might also refer to the introduction of drilling machines for metal on the Dutch Navy dockyards in 1822.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 68; A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, pp. 179-181

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous or anonymous, Drilling Apparatus for Metal, c. 1797 - c. 1822', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242793

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