Lot 320: Joshua Gosselin (British, 1739-1813)

The Casket (sic) lights near Alderney
inscribed and dated 1812 on mount
watercolour
12.8 x 19 cm.
with another of Mont St Michel, Normandy, both unframed, (2).

The Casquets Lighthouse, about 7 miles west of Alderney, was first lit on 30th October 1724 with coal fires, these were replaced with oil lamps in 1779 and was not converted to electric lamps until 1952.

Gosselin was a Channel Islander of an old Guernsey family, he was Greffier of the Royal Court, Colonel of the Militia and a notable amateur watercolourist and topographer.