Let there be Irish lights

Used to dramatic effect on the cover of the catalogue for a Forum Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) sale, shown below 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 S…

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