Hertogenbosch No. 2 / 's-Hertogenbosch / Bois-le-Duc / Bossche / Dem Bosch / Den Bosch / Des Hertogenbosch

Image received from the Museum via Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 February 2022)

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: three per side?

Image Source: digital image of aa August 1967 B&W photograph [#0038388] by J.A.M. Roelands, in the Erfgoed 's-Hertogenbosch collections [https://zoeken.erfgoedshertogenbosch.nl/detail.php?nav_id=2-1&positie=3&id=14504312] [accessed 6 February 2022]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

information

Scene Description: the location where the font had been photographed in August 1967 is now, March 2020, a cosmetics supplies establishment

Image Source: digital photograph 31 March 2020 by Rosemoon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hinthamerstraat_52,_'s-Hertogenbosch.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of basin

Scene Description: photographed in the Museum in February 2022

Image Source: digital photograph 4 February 2022 by Robbert Jan Looman, in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

Copyright Instructions: Image received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 February 2022)

view of basin

Scene Description: photographed in the Museum in February 2022

Image Source: digital photograph 4 February 2022 by Robbert Jan Looman, in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

Copyright Instructions: Image received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 February 2022)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: photographed in the Museum in February 2022

Image Source: digital photograph 4 February 2022 by Robbert Jan Looman, in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

Copyright Instructions: Image received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 February 2022)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: photographed in the Museum in February 2022

Image Source: digital photograph 4 February 2022 by Robbert Jan Looman, in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

Copyright Instructions: Image received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 February 2022)

view of font in context

Scene Description: in the garden at Hinthamerstraat 52, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands [cf. FontNotes] -- the ill-matched medieval basin and modern replacement base

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 4 April 2016 in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

Copyright Instructions: Image received from the Museum via Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 February 2022)

INFORMATION

FontID: 23729HER

Museum and Inventory Number: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden [cf. FontNotes]

Church/Chapel: [provenance unknown]

Church Location: [location of the font in August 1967: Hinthamerstraat 52, 5211 MR 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherllands]

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Noord-Brabant

Directions to Site: the address given for the font at the time is located in the city centre, on the N side of Sint-Janskathedraal; it is now [March 2020] the beauty products and cosmetics supply establishment ICI PARISXL

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval / composite

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it. We are also grateful to Robbert Jan Looman, photographer at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Erfgoed 's-Hertogenbosch collections hold a photograph [#0038388] of a medieval baptismal font taken August 1967 by J.A.M. Roelands; the image shows an object consisting of a roughly cylindrical basin with four human heads set at 90-degree angles, the sides between then decorated with a blind arcade of round arches on columns with capitals and bases, a decor fitting in the Romanesque style and period; the base of the object, however, is definitely not in agreement with the basin, obviously a later replacement, ill-suited to the whole font appearance; it consists of a round pedestal on a round splaying lower base, all made of small stones in the manner of bricks. The basin shows several signs of damage, at least one head missing, etc. The description in the source "Romaanse doopvont in de tuin" tells it all, and the location is given as " 's-Hertogenbosch, Hinthamerstraat 52". in it. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 2 February 2022) informs that he has pursued inquiries extensive inquiries with the archaeological department of the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch but not been able to get any further information on the whereabouts of this object. A further communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 8 February) informs of his correspondence exchanges with the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, which have confirmed that the font formerly in the 's-Hertogenbosch, Hinthamerstraat 52 [cf. supra] is in the museum in Leiden

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.688943, 5.306878

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 41′ 20.2″ N, 5° 18′ 24.76″ E

UTM: 31U 659454 5728962

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round