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anonymous
Model of a Caisson
Netherlands, Flushing, 1859
Inscriptions
- inscription, top left and right:Vol Zee / AP
- inscription, centre left and right:Laag Water
- inscription, below left and right:Geboorte / v.h. Gewelf
- inscription, bottom left:Model van de ijzeren / schipdeur voor het nieuwe / dok op een vijftigste / der ware grootte
- label, top centre:958 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
ObjectNumber: NG-MC-958
Entry
Block model of a caisson serving as a lock gate for a dry dock, with the indication of levels, mounted on a backboard. This caisson has only one keel.
In 1859 August Elize Tromp (1801-1871) designed this new caisson for the old dry dock by Jan Blanken Jansz (1755-1838) at the Navy dockyard of Willemsoord.
Scale (on model) 1:50.
Literature
‘Geschiedenis van de dokwerken op het Marine-etablissement Willemsoord aan het Nieuwediep’, Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut van Ingenieurs 1865-1866, The Hague 1866, pp. 1-37; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 958
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Caisson, Netherlands, 1859', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244772
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