Model of a Wheelbarrow Gun Carriage

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-745

Model of a wheelbarrow with one wheel.

In the cart, the cheeks of a gun carriage are mounted, and the fore end is hollowed out to the shape of a gun barrel. On the sides forked posts for the loading gear are indicated. The wheel is shod with brass. The feet have telescoping pins underneath to check the recoil.

This invention is one of many by Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen (1735-1819).

Scale unknown.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 745; R.B. Prud’homme van Reine, Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen 1735-1819. Admiraal en filantroop, Bussum 1990, p. 319, fig. on p. 320

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Wheelbarrow Gun Carriage, Netherlands, 1793', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244559