Cornwall.- British naval engineering.- Tonkin (James, Cornwall-based artist, active 1820s) [Views of the Celebrated Logan Rock Taken in 1824], the set of six, lithographs on J.Whatman wove paper with watermarked dates '1824', lithographed by J.P. Vibert, each sheet approx. 430 x 600 mm. (17 x 23 3/4 in), some small nicks and handling creases, minor surface dirt, loose without wrappers, unframed, published the artist and lithographer, 1824.

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⁂ Scarce complete set of the six plates, showing Logan rock, the eighty ton granite boulder perched on the edge of a headland overlooking the Atlantic ocean one mile south of the Cornish village of Treen. The set shows the boulder before and after it was rocked with bars and levers by Lieutenant Hugh Goldsmith (nephew of the famous poet Oliver Goldsmith) and ten or twelve of his crew of the cutter HMS Nimble, following which it fell from its cliff-top perch. The displacement of the rock gravely upset the local residents, and the Lords of the Admiralty were persuaded to lend Lieutenant Goldsmith the required apparatus for replacing it, which he achieved with "the skilful [sic] application of Machinery, and the labour of fifty persons", as shown in plates 4, 5, and 6.