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South Stack Rock, Holyhead
This painting, signed with the initials H.K. depicts the lighthouse completed in 1809 and the suspension bridge linking the Rock with Anglesey, erected in 1827. Thomas Roscoe described the scene in his 'Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales,' published in 1836: 'Its singularly novel aspect, its wild site and deserted air, ...were altogether of so unwonted a character, that had I been suddenly transported to the antipodes I could not have felt more unfeigned surprise'.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 428
Acquisition
Purchase, 6/3/1937
Measurements
Height
(cm): 55.5
Width
(cm): 75.2
Height
(in): 21
Width
(in): 29
Techniques
oil on canvas
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
oil
canvas
Location
Gallery 07
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