Used to dramatic effect on the cover of the catalogue for a Forum Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) sale of March 22, this is one of a collection of around 125 monochrome watercolour drawings of Irish lighthouses and the Irish coastline produced c.1860-67.
They are the work of Robert Calwell, an influential Commissioner of Irish Lights and author of A Short History of the Lighthouses of Ireland.
The collection sold for £4000.