[Pair with same title] Capt.n Bullock's Safety Beacon, on the Goodwin Sands,This humble but earnest effort to save the Lives of Shipwrecked Mariners of all Nations was erected 10th Sept.r 1840 under the sanction of the the R.t Hon.ble the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, by Frederick Bullock, Captain R.N.
S. Owen del.t. P. Gauci lith. [&] Drawn by A.R. Grieve. J. Grieve, Zincographer, 33 Nicholas Lane, London.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce matching pair of a lithograph and a zincograph, printed areas c.330 x 420mm (13 x 16½"), with very large margins. Some restoration to the lithograph.
Captain Bullock, of her Majesty's steamer Boxer, erected a 40-foot column with a sheltered platform, a water barrel and a ten-foot flagpole for signalling distress. The first image shows the beacon being erected at low tide, with an artist (Owen?) sketching the scene; the second during a storm, with mariners using the platform.
[Ref: 41340] £380.00
[n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce matching pair of a lithograph and a zincograph, printed areas c.330 x 420mm (13 x 16½"), with very large margins. Some restoration to the lithograph.
Captain Bullock, of her Majesty's steamer Boxer, erected a 40-foot column with a sheltered platform, a water barrel and a ten-foot flagpole for signalling distress. The first image shows the beacon being erected at low tide, with an artist (Owen?) sketching the scene; the second during a storm, with mariners using the platform.
[Ref: 41340] £380.00