2-717-114 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh laying the Foundation Stone of the new Eddystone Lighthouse, August 19, 1879', (1901). Prince Albert Edward (1841-1910), the future King Edward VII, and his brother Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900) at the site of the fourth Eddystone Lighthouse off the coast of Cornwall. The tower was designed by James Nicholas Douglass to warn shipping away from the dangerous Eddystone Rocks. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]