Category: 1820s
Chain Pier, Brighton
BPC00090 (this is a very small original image – see note on image sizes) Steel plate line engraving by W Read. Published by G B Whittaker c1825. This is the second edition: the first has the tit... Read More
German Spa and Pump Room, Brighton
BPC00330 Aquatint engraving by C & R Sickelmore, published in Sickelmore’s History of Brighton, 1827. The main colonnaded front of the building still stands in Queen’s Park. St George’s Cha... Read More
Perspective View of Oriental Place, West Cliff, Brighton, leading to the Athenaeum and Oriental Garden
BPC00260 Aquatint engraving by George Hunt after the architect’s drawing by A H Wilds and published by C & R Sickelmore, 26 King’s Road, Brighton, c1825. The Athenaeum was a large conservatory... Read More
Marine Parade, Brighton
BPC00244 Aquatint engraving by George Hunt after S J E Jones, published by C & R Sickelmore, King’s Road, Brighton c1827. Included in Sickelmore’s publication Select Views of Brighton. The nar... Read More
Sussex County Hospital, and general Sea-Bathing Infirmary
BPC00157 Lithograph drawn on stone and published by J Booty, 13 December 1827. Printed by H Mew, this impression is on India paper. There is only one other known print of Brighton by John Booty, show... Read More
Old Church
BPC00344 Aquatint engraving by Joseph Cordwell and published by him, January 1825. The foundations of the church date to Norman times. In the 1790s the tower was given the narrow spire that originally... Read More
Hampton Terrace Commanding a View of the Oriental Gardens
BPC00155 Aquatint engraving by George Hunt after the architect’s drawing by A H Wilds, c1825. On the far left is West Hill Lodge, Lady Gosford’s home, where Waitrose now stands on the corner of Mo... Read More