Jan Francoeur Print LTHS Hatteras Light

Print from Janet’s original ink and watercolor. Image size is 8 x 14 on 13 x 19 paper. Signed and numbered. Print only, not framed. The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse protects one of the most hazardous sections of the Atlantic Coast. Offshore of Cape Hatteras, the Gulf Stream collides with the Virginia Drift, a branch of the Labrador Current from Canada. This current forces southbound ships into a dangerous twelve-mile long sandbar called Diamond Shoals. Hundreds and possibly thousands of shipwrecks in this area have given it the reputation as the Graveyard of the Atlantic