Set of Drawing Instruments
date: label: date made
content: 1786
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: Reference: Maya Hambly, <i>Drawing Instruments, 1580–1980</i> (London: Sotheby's, 1988), 39–40.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Netherlands: South Holland, Rotterdam
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Drafting, Engineering
label: Subject
content: Presentation
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Drawing Instruments
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.317357
label: accession number
content: 230279
label: catalog number
content: 317357
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing instruments, set of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 cm x 19.7 cm x 4 cm; 1 3/16 in x 7 3/4 in x 1 9/16 in