Eddystone Lighthouse At Plymouth England New Poster Print

The2FunAdGuyz offer a new, high-quality, 11x17, reproduction print of a turn-of-the-century photochrom (see description below), taken in the 1890s, featuring the dramatic and famous Eddystone Light house about a dozen miles southwest of Plymouth, England. This lighthouse is both architecturally and nautically important. The area around the port city of Plymouth is among the most treacherous in the English Channel. This is the first of four lighthouses that have been built on the site. In this picture you see the remaining stub of the third lighthouse (Smeaton’s Tower) on the rock immediately to the left of the tower. This may be the most famous lighthouse in the British Isles, the Eddystone Lighthouse. It was designed by James Nicholas Douglass and earned him his knighthood. The lighthouse dedication occurred on May 18, 1982, by no less than the Duke of Edinburgh. The lighthouse still exists today though a helipad for maintenance crews has been added to the top (thus changing its appearance) and it has been fully automated.

The tower rises 161 feet above the rock and its light that can be seen for 22 miles. This photocrom was created some 10 years after construction and dedication and captures it image at a time when it was it was at the height of its importance.

This print, with its magnificent lighthouse architecture, works well in many home decor situations including a home library, bar, pub, living room, den or any room requiring a landscape, building or architectural view.

PHOTOCHROM: The photochrom process was a combination of photography and lithography that started in the 1800s and used until the development of true color photography in the 1930s. While the results can look more like a painting than a photograph, the images are striking. The photochrom (sometimes-spelled photochrome in America) system developed in Switzerland and then licensed to various companies in other countries. Detroit Publishing Company, Detroit, Michigan was the only company to license the process in the United States. The process first took black and white photographs and hand colored the resulting print. Then, using a special series of stone plates (minimum of four and up to 14 separate stones for a single print), prints could be reproduced in larger quantities. One of the reasons the results are so spectacular is that the pigments in the inks and ingredients to process the stones came from exotic locations around the world. The results—even more than a hundred years later—give us a unique, richly colored and very intense image.

ORIGINAL MEDIA: The Detroit Publishing Co. (original name Detroit Photo Graphic Company), Detroit, Michigan, originally produced the image used for this new print. During the last decade of the 1800s and early 1900s, they produced some of the finest photochrom images. Unfortunately, cheaper (and frequently lesser quality) printing methods spelled their demise.

HOME DECOR IDEAS: this vintage print makes a perfect wall decoration for a family game room, home bar, pub, music room or any room that needs a fun photograph.

PAPER QUALITY: This new print is on a highest quality, acid-free, 100-pound glossy premium text paper that allows for maximum color brilliance and fidelity for older images.

Image Size: 10.5 inches wide by 16.5 inches high.

Paper Size: 11 inches wide by 17 inches high. This allows for a small border around the image for matting and framing. When matted, this format is perfect for a standard 16-inch x 20-inch frame, a manageable size for a wide variety of decorating purposes.

AVAILABILITY: In Stock! – Ships Within 1 Business Day of cleared payment.

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