Sample of Iron

anonymous, 1876

IJzermonster in de vorm van een dikke zeskantige buis, de binnenzijde rond. Dit stuk is gekomen van de Centennial Tentoonstelling in Philadelphia in 1876.

  • Artwork typesample
  • Object numberNG-MC-1379
  • Dimensionsheight 4.5 cm x width 5 cm x depth 4.4 cm
  • Physical characteristicsiron

anonymous

Sample of Iron

? United States of America, 1876

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-1379


Entry

Sample of iron in the shape of a thick hexagonal pipe, with a round inner diameter.

This sample comes from the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876.1HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 23/3/1877 N29 (inv. no. 2492).


Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1379


Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Sample of Iron, United States of America, 1876', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20054251

(accessed 13 December 2025 05:51:57).

Footnotes

  • 1HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 23/3/1877 N29 (inv. no. 2492).