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A colorized pair of engravings on cream paper. Top: the twin lighthouse towers of Navesink in warm brownstone with green foliage and blue-grey sky; a taller square-battlemented north tower connects to a smaller octagonal south tower via a fortified stone dwelling. Bottom: a wooded ridge in shades of green, a rutted dirt road climbing beneath, a sliver of blue-grey ocean at left, the twin towers on the ridge at right.
COLORIZED

The Highland Lights and Beacon Hill · colorized reinterpretation

ca. 1875

Twin Lights of Navesink, Highlands, N.J.

A colorized reinterpretation of the paired 19th-century engravings — the twin brownstone towers of the Navesink Highlands lights above, the road climbing Beacon Hill below. Reintroduces the brown of the Navesink Formation greensand marl in which the towers stand and from which the ridge is built.

The engraving and an AI-colorized reinterpretation

Two wood engravings stacked on cream paper. Top: two masonry lighthouse towers — the taller left tower square and battlemented, the smaller right tower octagonal — connected by a low crenellated keeper's dwelling, with a few small figures walking a path in the foreground. Bottom: a rutted dirt road climbing a wooded ridge under a hazy sky, with two small figures and a horse-drawn cart on the road, a sliver of ocean at left and the twin lighthouses just visible on the ridge above at right. Captions read THE HIGHLAND LIGHTS and BEACON HILL, NEVERSINK HIGHLANDS.
A colorized pair of engravings on cream paper. Top: the twin lighthouse towers of Navesink in warm brownstone with green foliage and blue-grey sky; a taller square-battlemented north tower connects to a smaller octagonal south tower via a fortified stone dwelling. Bottom: a wooded ridge in shades of green, a rutted dirt road climbing beneath, a sliver of blue-grey ocean at left, the twin towers on the ridge at right.

Item record

Title
The Highland Lights and Beacon Hill · colorized reinterpretation
Date
ca. 1875
Source
Colorized by Above the Hook · after a 19th-century wood engraving
Contributor
Above the Hook · colorization of a 19th-century engraving
Rights
Underlying engraving public domain (19th c.); colorization CC BY-SA · Above the Hook
Slug
highland-lights-engraving-colorized

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The Highland Lights and Beacon Hill · colorized reinterpretation (ca. 1875). Colorized by Above the Hook · after a 19th-century wood engraving The Highlands History Project, https://history.abovethehook.com/archive/highland-lights-engraving-colorized/.