469. AFTER JAAZIELL JOHNSTON (FL.18TH CENTURY). A PROPECT OF EDDY-STONE LIGHT-HOUSE NEAR PLYMOUTH.

Engraving by John Sturt (1658-1730), with later hand-colouring, originally published c.1698, this impression apparently 18th Century, paginated in ink `LVIII` lower right corner, scarce
43.5 x 30.5cm.

Henry Winstanley (1644-1703) was Clerk of Works to King Charles II. In 1697, a year after his first design for a lighthouse upon this treacherous rock, Winstanley was overseeing developments when he was captured by a French privateer whose crewman destroyed the initial building work. Undaunted by such a setback, Winstanley went back to work and the lighthouse was finished in 1699. However, a storm on the night of November 26th 1703 destroyed the lighthouse and killed the light-keepers, the workmen and Winstanley himself.