Object Details
- Description
- This small set of silver instruments includes a pair of dividers with one removable point. This may be replaced by a pen point, pencil point, and dotting pen point that are also in the set. Inside the fixed leg of the dividers is marked: KB KB. A small pencil-lead holder (probably not original to the set) and a double-ended crayon holder are also in the case. The crayon holder is hollow and has two sliding rings for locking the crayons into place.
- The mahogany case is lined with green velvet. A silver presentation plaque on the lid is marked in Dutch: Eerste eer prys (/) van het genoodschap (/) onder de Zinspreuk (/) HIER DOOR DOT HOOGER (/) Gegeeve aan Jan Nagtegael (/) ROTTERDAM (/) ANNO 1786. According to Jacques van Damme, the inscription can be roughly translated as: "The first prize for honors from the Society with the motto 'Here through to higher,' given to Jan Nagtegael [Nightingale], Rotterdam, in the year 1786." The Smithsonian acquired this object in 1960.
- Reference: Maya Hambly, Drawing Instruments, 1580–1980 (London: Sotheby's, 1988), 39–40.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1786
- ID Number
- MA.317357
- accession number
- 230279
- catalog number
- 317357
- Object Name
- drawing instruments, set of
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- fabric (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 cm x 19.7 cm x 4 cm; 1 3/16 in x 7 3/4 in x 1 9/16 in
- place made
- Netherlands: South Holland, Rotterdam
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Drawing Instruments
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Drafting, Engineering
- Presentation
- Record ID
- nmah_1122127
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-99bd-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
