‘View of the Creux in the Isle of Sercq’

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

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

Description: Print, ‘View of the Creux 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 I.

Caption in ‘Transactions…’ states that the print “is a view of the small port and beach of the Creux in the Isle of Sercq, exhibiting the gate of the Tunnel, through which is the only entrance into the island. The adjacent rocks are of trap, and in the distance is seen a detached mass of granite.”

Date: 1811

Format:Engraving

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

Image reference: 05-48

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

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