Author: Mary McKean
View of Brighthelmstone in Sussex
BPC00033 Copperplate engraving published by Alex Hogg, 1780, and included in G.A. Walpole’s New British Traveller. The print shows an early view of Church Hill from the sea. Illustrated in Life in B... Read More
Sketches at Brighton – No: 1 – On the Beach – She Isn’t a Bathing Woman
BPC00032 Wood engraving from J H Thomson’s Brighton: The Road, The Place, The People 1862. This illustration was used as the frontispiece. The articles in this book were originally published in... Read More
Rope Houses etc on the Beach at Brighton
BPC00031 This is a copperplate etching by Edward William Cooke (1811-1880), from his Sixty-five plates of Shipping and Craft. London, 1829 -1830. This plate is number 1, published London, 1 August 1... Read More
The Pump-House, Brighton
BPC00028 Copperplate line engraving by W B Cooke after L Francia. Published by Cooke, 9 Soho Square, London, 1 January 1827. The Pump House supplied water to the seafront baths but was demolished in 1... Read More
Old Rocks – Brighton, 1809 – formerly opposite Rock-gardens, with the Marine Parade and Undercliff, Russell House, etc
BPC00029 Wood engraving illustrated in J.G. Bishop’s A Peep into the Past, Brighton in the Olden Time. Bishop, 1880, p 13, and in the 1892 edition, opposite p 14. ... Read More
Hogboats &c near the Battery, Brighton, May 1830
BPC00026 Copperplate etching by Edward William Cooke (1811-1880) from his Sixty-five plates of Shipping and Craft published in London 1829-1830. This is numbered plate 10, published 1 August 1830. P... Read More
Christmas Carol singing, by Brighton Fishermen
BPC00025 Wood engraving by Henry George Hine (1811-1895) a Brighton-born watercolourist and wood engraver, who worked for Punch and the Illustrated London News. This print was published in the Illust... Read More
Esplanade, Brighton
BPC00023 Steel engraving published by Rock & Co, London, 4 April 1853. The Albion Hotel is the large building right of centre. Images of Brighton 16 See all images of the beach in the beach galler... Read More