Author: Mary McKean
Close-up of BPC00006: Plan of Brighton and its Environs including the Recent Improvements
Hover over the image to view Published in W Saunders’ Stranger’s Guide to Brighton, being A Complete Companion to that Fashionable Watering Place and The Rides and Drives in its Vicinity. Publish... Read More
Close-up of BPC00225: The Grand Hotel King’s Road, Brighton
Hover over image to view Lithograph by Vincent Brooks, printed by Day & Son Lithographers, and published in The History of Brighton and Environs by Alderman Henry Martin. John Beal, East Street... Read More
Close-up of BPC00073: Brighton Chain Pier
Hover over image to view Steel plate line-engraving by R. Wallis after J.M.W. Turner, printed in London by James S. Virtue. This engraving is from one of the Turner paintings done for the Carved Chamb... Read More
Close-up of BPC00441: The Triumphal Arch, Erected for the 30th of August 1830, being the Day on which Their Majesties King William IV and Queen Adelaide entered Brighton after their Accession to the Throne.
Hover over image to zoom The arch was erected in Marlborough Place, at the southern end as it joins Church Street and just before the entrance to the Pavilion Grounds, where two years later William IV... Read More
The Temple, the Seat of T.R. Kemp Esqr, Brighton
BPC00400 Aquatint engraving, published in C & R Sickelmore’s Select Views of Brighton, c1829 and in their Descriptive Views of Brighton, c1830. In this view of the Temple, Church Hill with cattl... Read More
Ovington near Brighton
BPC00399 Aquatint engraving by and after William Daniell, published in his Voyage Round Great Britain of 1823: the paper is watermarked ‘J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1823’. This scene shows Thomas Read ... Read More
The Steyne at Brighton
BPC00398 (this is a very small original image – see note on image sizes) Copperplate line engraving from the Guide to All the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places, 1801. The view shows Holland’s Pavili... Read More
The Old Steyne, Brighton
BPC00397 Steel engraving after F W Woledge, no engraver named. The building far left, with the central pediment, is the residential terrace on the corner of Castle Square which replaced the Castle Hot... Read More