Winstanley's 2nd Eddystone Lighthouse Print

Giclee print on fine art paperSigned limited edition of 500 printsPrint dimension: 12" x 17" After three years of extraordinary hardship and ingenuity, Henry Winstanley and his brave crew of craftsmen had accomplished what many claimed was impossible. They had built a lighthouse 14 miles out to sea perched atop a tiny wind and wave swept, sliver of rock. In November 1698, Winstanley and his team left the lighthouse in the care of a keeper and his wife. The winter storms made it almost impossible to reach the lighthouse safely during the worst of the winter gales and so it was probably some months before the beleaguered keepers were relieved of their duty. They were only too happy to leave. It had been an appalling winter for them and one they wished never to experience again. Storms had blown for days on end causing the lighthouse to rock to and fro, only to be interrupted by the thunderous crash of a wave completely engulfing the tower. They told of the times that they had been litera