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Description: | The print comes from Francis Grose. [1784]. The Antiquities of England and Wales, volume 2, opposite p. 196 (plate 85). The drawing was made in 1761, during the governorship of Major General Robert Sloper. In the text (p. 196-9), Grose concentrates more on the background. Hurst Castle "was meant particularly to guard that channel or passage called the Needles, so named either for its narrowness, as resembling the eye of a needle, or from its vicinity to certain chalk rocks, one of which is tall and slender, with a sharp point, like a pinnacle or needle. These are styled the Needles, or Needle Rocks; they are seen at a distance in this view, where the pinnacle or pointed rock here mentioned, is particularly distinguishable: this, about two years ago, was thrown down by the impetuosity of the waves which washed its sides, and had before greatly undermined it." | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Hurst Spit Needles building Hurst Castle castle fort Isle of Wight Robert Sloper | Temporal: | start=1761-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Godfrey; S Hooper; Francis Grose | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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