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Henry Joseph Whitlock

Photograph of a Revolving Light for Lighthouses

Birmingham, 1870 - 1880

Object data

paper

height 56.5 cm × width 38 cm

Inscriptions

  • inscription, lower left: H.J. WHITLOCK BIRMM

Entry

Two framed black-and-white photographs of a revolving light for lighthouses. The light with lenses of Fresnel’s principle is placed on a wooden floor in front of dark curtains and consists of a glass superstructure on an open revolving mechanism. On one photograph, part of the light is obscured.

The first lighthouse with revolving lights and Fresnel lenses in the Netherlands was the Brandaris lighthouse on the island of Terschelling in 1837.1

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1321

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Henry Joseph Whitlock, Photograph of a Revolving Light for Lighthouses, Birmingham, 1870 - 1880', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245123

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