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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A model of the fourth Eddystone Lighthouse, completed in 1759, made entirely in wood with metal, cork, and glass fittings. The base of the model is realistically modelled in cork depicting the Eddystone reef with two work boats, both with transom sterns. The lighthouse is made from two different coloured woods that show the red and white horizontal bands of the actual lighthouse. The lighthouse splits horizontally into six sections, four of which are at the floor level of each room and depicts the internal structure and room layouts. The lower-most dividing point shows the interlocking stone structure of the lighthouse's foundations. The first floor depicts the lower storeroom and its fittings and equipment. The second floor depicts the upper storeroom. The third floor depicts the living room and its furnishings. The fourth floor depicts the bedroom with its three keepers' bunks. The lantern is glazed on each of its eight sides and the light is depicted with its cover in position. A brass gallery rail encircles the lantern and a tall flagstaff is rigged to it. A weather vane in the form of an arrow is mounted to the top of the cupola. There are a number of operable windows and two doors can also be opened, just inside one of which is a working crane.
There is a photograph with same number in KB C5 RRK 51 C5.
caption: The Eddystone lighthouse
caption: The Eddystone lighthouse lantern - topsection with weather vain
caption: The Eddystone lighthouse - bedroom
caption: The Eddystone lighthouse - living room
caption: The Eddystone lighthouse - upper store room
caption: The Eddystone lighthouse - store room
caption: The Eddystone lighthouse - base with boats
caption: The Eddystone lighthouse - detail of interlocking stones
caption: The Eddystone lighthouse - first and second floors
caption: The Eddystone lighthouse - first, second and third floors
caption: The Eddystone lighthouse - first, second, third and fourth floors
caption: The Eddystone lighthouse - first to firth floors
caption: The Eddystone lighthouse - side | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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