Gosselin (Colonel Joshua)

view of the Îles Saint-Marcouf, a pair of uninhabited islands in the southern part of the English Channel, off the Normandy coast south of Cherbourg, to the east of the Contentin Peninsula in the Baie de la Seine. Joshua Gosselin (1739-1813) was born on Guernsey in the Channel Islands, joined the Guernsey Militia in 1758 and rose to the rank of colonel. Aside from his military career, he was an accomplished artist, naturalist and antiquarian, all of which he brought to bear on studies of the region,

original hand-coloured aquatint by Nicholas Pocock, 380 x 600 mm. (15 x 23 5/8 in), slight browning with an exposure line outside the image and title, a small loss to the upper left sheet edge, outside the platemark, a soft vertical, central, crease,