Object data
mahogany and iron (hod); wood, brass and iron (trowel)
hod: height 23 cm × width 31 cm × depth 24 cm
trowel: height 8 cm × width 28.8 cm × depth 12 cm
anonymous
Hod and Trowel
? Flushing, 1848
Provenance
...; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, c. 1848;1 transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1249
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
A hod with curved sides and a hook to the back. The trowel has an elegantly turned handle. This hod and trowel were used to lay the first stone of the extensively repaired and improved large lock in Flushing in 1848. The lock was repaired from 1834 to 1835 and again from 1847 to 1848.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, pp. 3-4; A.E. Tromp, ‘Aanleg en gemaakte veranderingen aan het dok der Marine te Vlissingen en de daar voor liggende grote zeesluis, met vermelding van belangrijke bijzonderheden der constructie en andere’, Verhandelingen en berigten betrekkelijk het zeewezen (1851), pp. 531-78, 791-842; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1249
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Hod and Trowel, Flushing, 1848', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245061
(accessed 27 April 2024 07:42:39).