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Model of a chain messenger
Also titled Model van een kettingkabelaring
1828
- Medium
- wood (plant material), brass (alloy)
- Classification
- demonstration model
- Dimensions
- height 11.5 cm x width 135.5 cm x depth 18.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This model represents the mid-section of a ship’s deck and demonstrates how an anchor was raised. The anchor is attached to a heavy cable, which is too thick to turn around a drum. It is therefore secured to a messenger cable, a long, endless rope that can be wound around a capstan to haul in the anchor cable.
