Ref NoLDGSL/78/2/1/3
TitleEngraving, 'General view of Port Des Moulins in the Isle of Sercq'
Date1811
LevelItem
Extent1 item
FormatPhotograph/drawing/painting/print
DescriptionPrint, 'General view of Port Des Moulins in the Isle of Sercq', 1811, engraved by M Barenger, based on a drawing by John MACCULLOCH. Caption printed in the 'Transactions...' states the print "is a general view of Port des Moulins. The rocks on the right hand are of grauwacke-slate, as also are the three insulated buttress-like rocks that appear in the distance. Behind the two furthest of these is situated the granite-vein represented in PL 3: the steatitical vein described in the Memoir lies also among the distant cliffs.
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ProvenancePresented by Miss Estridge, December 1923.
Access ConditionsAccess is by appointment only. Please contact the Archivist for further information.
LanguageEnglish
Publication NotePublished as one of the illustrations to accompany John MacCulloch's paper "Account of Guernsey, and the other Channel Islands", 'Transactions of the Geological Society of London', Series 1, Volume 1 (1811), pp1-22, plate IV.
ArchNoteDescription by John Thackray; revised by Caroline Lam.
CreatorNameMACCULLOCH | John | 1773-1835 | surgeon and geologist
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/30MACCULLOCH; John (1773-1835); surgeon and geologist1773-1835
Places
CodePlaceName
NA325Channel Islands
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