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John William Edy: English: "View of Crystal Rocks" Norsk bokmål: «Prospect af Chrystal Klipperne»   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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John William Edy  (1760–1820)  wikidata:Q3374273
 
Alternative names
John William Edye; John William Edge; Edye; Edge; Edy
Description Danish artist, engraver and painter
Date of birth/death 7 May 1760 Edit this at Wikidata 1820 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Denmark
Work period 1779 Edit this at Wikidata–1820 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q3374273
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English: "View of Crystal Rocks"
Norsk bokmål: «Prospect af Chrystal Klipperne»
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No. IX. A REMARKABLE VIEW IN THE ISLE OF HELLISÖE.

On the opposite side of a bason or small harbour enclosed with mountains of stone, are a group of singular forms said to be shoots of crystal. They are angular, and rise perpendicularly above the surface of deep water, more than two hundred feet, having a few shrubs in the cavities, and their heads nearly covered with moss. On the left lic the fragments of a ship wrecked upon the coast, in which was a sailor above his waist in water; fatigue, cold, and hunger had bereft him of his senses. The humane and charitable natives ran to his relief, and happily enabled him to return to his native home and family.

On the highest point of the island are the marks to direct seamen in the Skager. These are two large towers or cones of stones, with flat tops painted white.

Here is also a burial-place for shipwrecked mariners, where they are decently interred, and the pastor of the district scatters a spoonful of consecrated earth on the corpse while reading the service. A circle of stones, or a small wooden cross (on which the name is inscribed if known), points out the spot where his sad relics lic.

Several terrific passes run among the rocks, with large fragments wedged between them, which the passenger sees fearfully suspended over his head.


Date 1800
date QS:P571,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway, London, 1820. Plate no. 9 (p. 93 in scanned copy)
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