Watcombe Rocks

The Valley of the Rocks at Watcombe near Torquay—once part of the Watcombe Park estate belonging to Isambard Kingdom Brunel—in the mid-19th-century played host to two open-air music fetes, attended by thousands. The one-time equatorial landscape formed a natural amphitheatre, now overrun by vegetation, much concealing the once majestic Giant Rock.

Delicately painted by Nottingham artist Alfred Wilson Cox (1830–1888), with a beautiful play of light across the valley.

Stock number JZ-485