Object data
brass, wood, mica and paint
height 134 cm × width 38.5 cm × depth 38.5 cm
Grofsmederij Leiden
Model of a Lighthouse
Leiden, c. 1867
Inscriptions
- inscription, above the door: [...] / WILLEM III / [...] / 1868
Conservation
- Restauratieatelier Scheepsmodellen, 2007: restored
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1269
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Brass model of the Noordwachter Lighthouse, mounted on a square base.
The model has twelve sides, consisting of a supporting framework around a central column with the stairs. The base is closed and covered and has a doorway, with the inscription above. The top is also twelve-sided, with a dome-shaped roof, with a weathervane shaped as an arrow.
The model was shown at the Exhibition Universelle of 1867 in Paris. The Noordwachter lighthouse northwest of Java was the first iron lighthouse to be built by the Dutch in the Dutch East Indies. It was built by the Grofsmederij Leiden from 1868 to 1869, which had the materials shipped from The Hague to Java in the sailing vessel Galileï. It was made of angle and plate iron.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1269; Encyclopedie Nederlands Indië, s.l. 1918, vol. 2, p. 494; W. Steffens, Kort overzicht uit de geschiedenis der bebakening van vaarwaters, reeden, enz. in den O.I. archipel, s.l. 1926; L. Crommelin and H. van Suchtelen, Nederlandse vuurtorens. Bouw en organisatie, Nieuwkoop 1978, pp. 44-46; R. van der Veen, Vuurtorens. Over vierboeten, lichtwachters en markante bouwwerken, Groningen/Bussum 1981, pp. 128-29
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Grofsmederij Leiden, Model of a Lighthouse, Leiden, c. 1867', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245081
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