Southerness Lighthouse.
26/07/2018
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16”x12” watercolour and ink on Arches. Done from a sketch a couple of weekends ago. Sountherness lighthouse is one of the earliest lighthouses in Scotland. It was built as a marker in 1749 to help ships navigate their way up the Nith Estuary. It was heightened in 1795 and the first light added in around 1800. Raised again in 1843 creating its distinctive shape. The light was extinguished in the mid 1930s and is now disused. The foreground rocks are almost black with their covering of seaweed, it is surrounded by sea at high tide.
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