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Model of a cross-section through an armoured turret
Also titled Model van een halve geschuts-koepel
1868 - 1869
- Medium
- iron (metal), wood (plant material), brass (alloy)
- Classification
- gunmodel
- Dimensions
- height 28.5 cm x width 40.3 cm x depth 39.8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
This model offers a glimpse into the armoured turret on the turret ram Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden, the Royal Netherlands Navy’s first ironclad ship. The vessel was built in 1866–1867 at the Laird Brothers yard in Britain, after a design by Laird and the Dutch engineer B.J. Tideman. The Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden was fitted with two of these turrets, each housing two guns with a 23 cm calibre.
