Author: Mary McKean
The Marine Parade, Brighton
BPC00242 Coloured lithograph by G Graf, London, published by W J Taylor c1850. The sky is printed in blue on this copy. Taylor took over the East Street premises of the publisher William Leppard. No a... Read More
Lucombe’s Library in ‘Part of the Steine, Brighton’
BPC00238 (this is a very small original image – see note on image sizes) Copperplate line engraving published at Wises Manufactory, Tunbridge Town, c1827. No artist or engraver is mentioned. The lar... Read More
Donaldson’s Library in ‘The Steyne Brighton’
BPC00237 Copperplate line engraving by Neale & Son, published by S Leigh, Strand, London and included in Leigh’s booklet of 1820, New Pictures of England and Wales. The largest building, just ri... Read More
Donaldson’s Library in ‘View on the Steine, Brighton’
BPC00236 Aquatint engraving, sky printed in colour, no other colouring. Published by Fenner & Tye, Tunbridge Wells, 1 March 1808. The large building is Donaldson’s Library which stood on the so... Read More
Donaldson’s Library, Brighton
BPC00235 Wood engraving from The Brighton Ambulator, a guide book published by C Wright in 1818 containing Historical and Topographical Delineations of The Town from the Earliest Period to the Present... Read More
Miss Widgett’s Library, South of the Steine, 1779 – The Post Office
BPC00234 Wood engraving published in J G Bishop’s 1880 and 1892 editions of A Peep into the Past: Brighton in the Olden Time. The first library on the Steine was built on the east side by the Tunbri... Read More
Lancing with the Signal House
BPC00233 Hand coloured aquatint engraving, c1820. No artists mentioned. In 1795 the Admiralty ordered the erection of signal stations all along the Channel coast to maintain a watch against potential ... Read More
Nine images on one plate
BPC00230 Wood engravings originally from Kidd’s Pocket Companion to Brighton 1832 then republished in Lacey’s Picturesque Views in Great Britain c1840: ‘Chain Pier-Toll’ See all images of the ... Read More