Author: Mary McKean
The Workhouse on Church Hill
BPC00478 Wood engraving published in ‘extra-illustrated’ editions of J A Erredge’s History of Brighthelmstone, 1862. This second Brighton workhouse was built in 1821 and closed towards the end ... Read More
Theatre Royal
BPC00404 (this is a very small original image – see note on image sizes) Wood engraving from Kidd’s Pocket Companion to Brighton, 1832. Images of Brighton 951 Both images of theatres: ... Read More
Old Steyne
BPC00391 Aquatint c1805. Artist and engraver unknown. There is a smaller edition of this subject, also in aquatint, but untitled. On the left is Marlborough House, and in the centre is Mrs Fitzherbert... Read More
Brighton Railway Terminus and Old Church, Brighton
BPC00374 Wood engravings by one of the Dalziel brothers, signed on the far right tombstone of the lower print. Published by Charles Knight in The Tourists’ Guide to The Land We Live In, 1854. While... Read More
Brighton, St. Nicholas’ Church, During the Restoration, 1853
BPC00358 Copperplate etching by W T Quartermain, an amateur artist who was the inspector for the Corporation Fire Brigade and in the Office for Testing Gas Meters. This view is taken from the north, a... Read More
S.E. View of Brighton Church
BPC00351 Aquatint engravings. The church view was published in J Rouse’s Scraps of Sussex, c1830. The pictures of the font are not recorded, but to see them stuck together on old paper might indica... Read More
The Easter Monday Volunteer Review on Brighton Downs/The Review on the Level
BPC00337 Two wood engravings from the Illustrated London News, c1885. See all images of Park Crescent and The Level See all images of outer Brighton and Hove... Read More
Pool Valley, Brighton
BPC00316 Lithograph after F W Woledge, published by J Smith, Pool Valley 1843. Shown is the south front of the York Hotel, the original site of Richard Scrase’s Manor House, and in the middle distan... Read More