Lot 157: w - A FINE EARLY VICTORIAN WOOLWORK PICTURE DEPICTING THE EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE, MID 19TH CENTURY

worked and applied with coloured wools, within a rosewood frame

CATALOGUE NOTE

The first lighthouse on Eddystone rock was built by Henry Winstanley (1644-1703) out of Cornish granite and was completed in 1698. Winstanley a trained engraver, shipowner and designer produced widely circulated designs of his lighthouse project. Winstanleys' first lighthouse was virtually rebuilt a year after its completetion as its defences needed strengthening and fabric rebuilding due to the ravages of an unforgiving sea. This second tower survived just four years before being demolished in the great winter storm of November 1703. Winstanley perished with his beloved lighthouse that night.

h.86.5cm., w.61.5cm.