Smeaton's Lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks Size:XL: 100 x 70cm October 1997

October 1997

Inscription on card reads: 'MAULL & FOX 187 PICCADILLY LONDON

Stone bosses from St Michael's Crypt

in fifteenth-century dress

Smeaton's Lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks Size:XL: 100 x 70cm October 1997Depiction of a section of the third lighthouse built upon the Eddystone Rocks near Plymouth. The third lighthouse was built following the destruction of earlier versions designed by Henry Winstanley (1644 1703), and John Rudyard (or Rudyerd; 1650 ca. 1718). The Royal Society recommended the civil engineer John Smeaton (1724 1792) for the job; his lighthouse was completed in 1759. Plate 9 of A narrative of the building and a description of the