Lighthouse / model

Description

Model of the Bell Rock Lighthouse enclosed in a plate-glass case showing the tower and its various apartments and the railway, cranes and boats employed during the building's construction, 1807 - 1811, completed in 1822

Museum reference

T.1867.22.1

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Lighthouse / model

Date

1822

Materials

Wood, Plate glass

Physical description

Wood; plate glass case

Associations

Lighthouse builder: Stevenson, Robert, 1772 - 1850
Depicted: Bell Rock Lighthouse, Angus, Scotland, Northern Europe

References

Stevenson, David, Life of Robert Stevenson: Civil Engineer, Edinburgh University Press, 1878

Robert Stevenson, An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House (Edinburgh, 1824), p.497, plate VI

Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, Catalogue of the Industrial Department (Edinburgh, 1897), 8-9, case 62.

‘A Not So Lighthouse’ [return of model to RSM after the Second World War], Edinburgh Evening News, 6 September 1945

J. Calder (ed.), The Enterprising Scot: Scottish Adventure and Achievement (Edinburgh, 1986), 83, 89-94

J. Calder (ed.), The Wealth of a Nation in the National Museums of Scotland (Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1989), 107-8

A.D. Morrison-Low, Northern Lights: The Age of Scottish Lighthouses (NMSE: Edinburgh, 2010), 205, illustrated p. 121 and 130.