Model of the Noordwachter lighthouse on Java
Also titled Model van de vuurtoren Noordwachter op Java
c. 1867
- Medium
- wood (plant material), brass (alloy), mica
- Classification
- scale model
- Dimensions
- height 134 cm x width 38.5 cm x depth 38.5 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
The first iron lighthouse built by the Dutch administration in the Dutch East Indies was the Noordwachter lighthouse on an isle northwest off Java. It consists of a stairwell cylinder enclosed and supported by a twelve sided skeleton. Grofsmederij Leiden cast the lighthouse in sections, which were shipped to Indonesia. This model was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1867.
