Photograph of Girandole Mirror (July 2016)

Title

Photograph of Girandole Mirror (July 2016)

Description

This Girandole Mirror is a device that allowed a few candles to cast a lot of light by bouncing them off a convex mirror. It became popular in America in the federalist period, but was actually invented much earlier in England.

Creator

Banks III, Jesse

Source

Digital copy created by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage

Date

2016-07

Contributor

Lena Bohman

Rights

Rights Status Not Evaluated

Citation

Banks III, Jesse, “Photograph of Girandole Mirror (July 2016),” Digital Tours of The Nightingale-Brown House , accessed November 3, 2025, https://cds.library.brown.edu/NBHouse/items/show/89.

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