No. 45 of 73 (PAI0889 - PAI0961)

Inscribed in the lower left 'at Kynance in Cornwall/july 1817.'

Kynance Cove is dramatically located on the western side of the Lizard Peninsula near Helston. In the summer of 1849 Schetky cruised to Cornwall on board the Duke of Rutland’s schooner-yacht 'Resolution'. His daughter, SFL Schetky, recorded the cruise quoting from one of her father’s letters (p.230):

“RESOLUTION, AT SEA, 11th July 1849

… How interesting has this day’s sail been to me! The first thing I saw on coming on deck which brought a long chain of remembrances of happy, happy days, was Bosahan in all its beauty. … Then came the Blackhead, Cadgewith, Landawednack, the Lizard – and didn’t I look and look till Kynance came in view! And then, last and most interesting, Mullion Cove: there is the Gull Rock, the island, and that flag-staff where only yesterday I passed one of the happiest days of my life with all that I love best in this world in full glee and robust health, enjoying ourselves round about me on the pure white sands! …’