A View of Lindesnes

The English artist John William Edy arrived in Norway by sea in 1800. His impressions from the journey in text and picture are published in London some years later. Both text and picture from Lindesnes show that they had poor weather when they rounded Norway’s southernmost point.

He describes the landfall at Norway’s southernmost point in this way:

“The awful sublimity of the coast fills the imagination with ideas of desolation and horror; ...”