Scheepsbarometer

Scheepsbarometer

This object is now not on display in the museum

Title

Scheepsbarometer

Artist

Dating

1800 - 1850

Material and technique

mahoniehout, been, koper, glas

Object number

16002

Object type

barometer, meetinstrument

Acquisition

legaat 1968

Dimensions

hoogte 97 cm

breedte 7 cm

diepte 4.5 cm

Inscriptions and markings

  • opschrift op bovenste deel van de barometer : WOOD// SOUTHAMPTON

Physical description

De barometer is van mahoniehout, de schaalverdelingen zijn aangebracht op been of ivoor, het reservoir is gevat in koper.

Documentation

  • 200 Jaar antieke barometers 1670-1870, door Th.H. van Cotthem, (Schiedam, 1977), pp. 136-138, verg. afb. p. 137

  • De oude klokken van het Centraal Museum [Stageverslag], Lieneke Nijkamp, (Utrecht, 2005)

  • Old clocks and watches and their makers : a historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past in England and abroad : containing a list of nearly fourteen thousand makers, F.J. Britten, (New York, 1956), p. 502

Persistent url

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https://hdl.handle.net/21.12130/collect.567D4591-90E2-4701-A897-00AC6C3D0940

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