Lighthouse on stone base with lantern tower and boat – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic image of Lighthouse on stone base with lantern tower and boat brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Lighthouse on stone base with lantern tower and boat
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A squat stone base carries the lantern tower in this view, and a small boat rides the water just offshore, which gives a sense of scale that many lighthouse pictures leave out. Lighthouses of this kind were built to mark dangerous coasts and harbor approaches, and the sturdy masonry base was meant to withstand wind and heavy seas while the lantern above threw its light out over the water to warn passing ships. The boat in the foreground hints at the working traffic these towers served, from fishing crews to coastal freight. Look at how the stonework and the tower's proportions were designed to read clearly from a distance, since a lighthouse's shape mattered as much as its light for identifying a location at sea.
| Original scan | 5,016 × 6,157 px · prints to 17 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif09094_NowvacantRobbinsReeforKatesLig |
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