Object data
wood and brass
height 22 cm × width 44.3 cm × depth 25 cm
's Lands Werf Amsterdam (possibly)
Model of a Timber Wagon
? Amsterdam, France, 1797 - 1801
Provenance
...; 's Lands Werf (Navy dockyard) Amsterdam, 1801;1 Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague; transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-74
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Construction model of a two-wheeled cart equipped with a winch. The winch consists of a worm screw and a barrel with a cogwheel. The shaft of the worm screw runs from the front of the cart frame to the back; the crank is at the front. There are two wooden rollers, one at the fore and one aft.
Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1755-1837) observed this type of timber wagon during his voyage to France in 1797, where it was called a triqueballe.2 He mentions the model as part of the model collection of the Amsterdam Navy dockyard in 1801.3
Literature
J.P. Asmus, Rapport van een reize naar de Fransche zeehavens aan den Oceaan in den jaar 1797, op ordre van het Bataafsche Gouvernement-Verzameling van differente stukken gedurende de reize naar de Fransche zeehavens in den Oceaan in den jaare 1797, 2 vols., s.l. 1797-1801, manuscript in HNA 2.01.29.01 Dept. Marine, inv. no. 451-18, vol. 2, pp. 114-15; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 74; A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, pp. 91-92
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'possibly 's Lands Werf Amsterdam, Model of a Timber Wagon, Amsterdam, 1797 - 1801', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242799
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