
on your wall
Inside the Lantern II, The Fastnet Lighthouse, Cork
For a living room or above a sofa, Feature or Showcase sizes give the best impact. Unframed prints are perfect if you'd like to choose your own frame.
If in doubt, contact me!
Prints are made to order, so I can't take one back just because you've changed your mind, but if it arrives damaged or isn't what you ordered, I'll replace it at no cost. You can swap it within 30 days, though you'd cover the return postage.
The rawhide gloves are what I keep coming back to. They're sitting on the platform, easy to miss at first, but they tell you everything about what it took to keep this light burning. Fingerprints on a Fresnel lens would affect the beam, so you wore gloves. You climbed the ladder, cleaned every prism by hand, and kept going.
I was fortunate enough to photograph the Fastnet Lantern while it was still operational. That window has since closed. The original lens is now shrouded and still, replaced by a modern LED beacon, so this image feels like a record of something that no longer exists in quite the same way. The Lantern Room is two stories high, and from the catwalk at the top you look straight down into the heart of the lens assembly. Vertiginous, to put it mildly. Glance sideways and you're looking through the glazing to the Atlantic far below.
From this angle you can see the twin bulbs clearly. If one failed, the mechanism would rotate the second into the exact focal point. Beautifully simple engineering for something so critical. The prismatic colours shifting across the glass panels as the lens turned were genuinely remarkable. I spent longer up there than was probably sensible!
Read the story behind these photographs, from six or seven nights out on the Fastnet Rock.
Shipping is free once your order passes a threshold that depends on where it's going:
- Ireland: free over €75, otherwise €9
- UK and Europe: free over €150, otherwise €20
- US and Canada: free over €250, otherwise €35
- Rest of the world: a flat €100, whatever the order value
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We produce all our prints to order, so you can be sure you're getting the best quality work to hang on your wall. As a result, in busy times it can take a while to process the orders. In the worst case, which is generally during the peak months of July-September, it can take 4-6 weeks to receive large framed prints. Large canvases generally take 2-3 weeks. Unframed prints are generally also 2-3 weeks at worst.
We aim to get prints out as quickly as possible, so we would expect and hope that you would receive them earlier than the above timeframes. If you have a particular need to get a print quickly, please let us know in the order notes and we'll prioritize it for you, or you can email us at info@petercox.ie.
Prints are well-packaged and in the unlikely event that it arrives damaged, we'll send a replacement free of charge.
When your order ships, you'll receive an email with your tracking number.
Thanks for your trust, and we hope you get many years of enjoyment from your new print!












