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BOM or BOMSCHUIT

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:33 pm

Panorama Mesdag is a panorama by Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Housed in a purpose-built museum in The Hague, the panorama is a cylindrical painting (also known as a Cyclorama) more than 14 meters high and about 40 meters in diameter (120 meters in circumference). From an observation gallery in the centre of the room the cylindrical perspective creates the illusion that the viewer is on a high sand dune overlooking the sea, beaches and village of Scheveningen in the late 19th century. A foreground of fake terrain around the viewing gallery hides the base of the painting and makes the illusion more convincing.
Mesdag was a notable marine painter of the Hague School; in 1880 he was engaged by a Belgian company to paint the panorama, which with the assistance of his wife and many student painters (including Breitner), was completed by 1881. However, the vogue for panoramas was coming to an end, and the company went bankrupt in 1886. Mesdag purchased the panorama and met its losses from his own pocket. The panorama is now the oldest surviving panorama in its original location.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama_Mesdag
The painting you can see on: http://www.panorama-mesdag.com/#pagina=2398
On the stamp, not so good visible as on the painting are different fishing vessel depict on the beach, which were called BOM’s and which worked from the flat beaches from Scheveningen and other fishing ports on the west coast of the Netherlands.
At that time (1881) there was not a port in Scheveningen and the fishing vessels were pulled on the beach after the fishing trip by horsepower.
It were boxy fishing boats, clinker built with a heavy flat bottom mostly made of beams. Double ended with bluff bow and stern.
She was decked with a fish-well, and a large cabin for the crew.
Carried leeboards.
The mainmast was stepped just before amidships, which set a loose-footed boomed gaff sail and often a topsail. Many carried also a jigger mast stepped on the starboard quarter, setting a similar gaff sail.
During drifting the mainmast was generally struck.
Till 1918 in use, the bom’s depict on the painting were almost all destroyed during a heavy gale on 24 December 1894.
Thereafter the municipality of Scheveningen decided to build a port, which was opened in 1899.

Crew 6-10.
Dim. length 8.8 – 16 m., beam 6m., depth 1.84m. shallow draft.

In 1963 The Netherlands and Surinam issued stamps to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, two of the Dutch stamps and the Surinam stamp have the same design.
The stamps depict the landing after his arrival from England of Prince Willem of Orange, later King Willem I, in 1813 after the fall of Napoleon. The scene is on the beach of Scheveningen, near Den Haag (Hague). Prince Willem is shown, standing in a fish cart, with in the background de bow of a fishing vessel from which he just landed. The fishing boat is a “bomschuit”.

Source: Watercraft Philately Sept/Oct. 1970.

Netherlands 1963 4/5c sg?, scott418/19.
Surinam 196 10c sg?, scott314
Netherlands 1995 80c sg?, scott? 2015 first class mail
Gambia 1991 1d25 sg1248, scott 1147.

Source: De Bomschuit by E.W. Petrejus.
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