Rudyard's Lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks Size:XL: 100 x 70cm and spared themselves their trouble

and spared themselves their trouble

The cephalopod is presented from above with an inset detail of the underside

The poem and the cartoon were suggested by Irish legal appointments

His right hand rests against his sword

Rudyard's Lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks Size:XL: 100 x 70cm and spared themselves their troubleDepiction of the south elevation and section of the second lighthouse built upon the Eddystone Rocks, near Plymouth, following the destruction in 1703 of Henry Winstanley's first version. This second lighthouse, a conical wooden structure built around a core of brick and concrete, was constructed under the management of the silk merchant and property developer John Rudyard (or Rudyerd; 1650 ca. 1718). It was completed in 1709 and destroyed by a fire