2-716-439 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Inchcape Rock', 1908, (c1930). Illustration to a ballad of the same name by Robert Southey, published in 1802. A warning bell for shipping had been installed on a dangerous sandstone reef off the east coast of Scotland. Sir Ralph the Rover, a pirate, removed the bell, and later perished when his ship was wrecked on the reef. Painting in the New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester. From "Modern Masterpieces of British Art". [The Amalgamated Press Ltd., London, c1930]