Author: Mary McKean
German Spa and Pump Room, Brighton
BPC00327 Aquatint drawn and engraved by M U Sears & Co, Warwick Square, London, c1835. The German Spa (later the Royal German Spa) was opened by Dr Friedrich Struve of Dresden, who was able to art... Read More
Phoebe Hessel
BPC00323 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, Brighton, 1871. ... Read More
Pool Valley, during the storm at Brighton. July 17th 1850
BPC00318 Lithograph by Day & Sons after F Ford, published 19 Aug 1850 by W H Mason, 80 King’s Road. The text on the print reads ‘On Wednesday evening July 17th 1850 between 6 and 7 o’clock a... Read More
A Noble Duke, taken on the Steyne at Brighton
BPC00319 Hand coloured copperplate etching, published 20 November 1801 by Dighton, Charing Cross. Inscribed ‘Duke of Grafton’. From a series of Brighton subjects by Robert Dighton (1752-1814). See... Read More
John Standing, the Brighton Matchman, aged 77
BPC00320 Copperplate line engraving, drawn and etched by John Bruce and published by him in Brighton, 1829. With 12 lines of verse. Standing is described in Erredge’s History of Brighthelmstone. He ... Read More
A View of Pool Valley during the storm of July 17th 1850
BPC00317 Steel engraving by T Jeavons after G Ruff, published by W Grant, August 1850. The view shows the flooded premises of the publisher John Bruce in Pool Lane, then in Pool Valley itself can be s... Read More
View of Pennant Lodge & New Villa from the Public Park
BPC00315 Lithograph by T Way, London, c1840. Pennant Lodge was in Queen’s Park. The Brighton & Hove Directory of 1845, under the Queen’s Park entry, lists Thomas Attree first, then Lady Em... Read More
A View of the Pavilion, Steyne and Promenade, Brighton, in 1805
BPC00312 A lithograph published by Gavin Pocock, June 1849, and sold for the benefit of the Brighton Dispensary Building Fund. This lithograph is taken from the larger aquatint engraving of 1806, obvi... Read More