Title: ‘View of the Coupee in the Isle of Sercq’

Creator: M Barenger after John MacCulloch (1773-1835)

Description: Print, ‘View of the Coupee in the Isle of Sercq’. Published 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 II.

Caption printed in the ‘Transactions…’ states the print “is a view of the Coupee in the Isle of Sercq, taken from the smaller division of the island, called Petit Sercq. That part of the isthmus, the furthest from the spectator, is traversed by the soft vein mentioned in the Memoir, and is rapidly wearing down.”

Date: 1811

Format: Engraving

Archive reference: LDGSL/78/2/1/2

Image reference: 05-49

Recommended print size: Up to 16 x 12 inches (40 x 30cm)