Category: 1840s
A New Plan of Brighton and Kemp-Town. Divided into Wards Pursuant to the Reform Bill
BPC00005 Published in Wallis’s Royal Edition of Brighton As It Is, 1842, Describing Every Recent Improvement. This is virtually the same as BPC00004 (published 6 years earlier) but the new ‘Rail... Read More
The Cricket Match between Sussex and Kent, at Brighton (detail)
BPC00173 This image is a detail of BPC00141. Copperplate engraving by G H Phillips after William Drummond and Charles Basebe. Published 1 May 1849 by E Gambart, London, and W H Mason, Brighton. It sho... Read More
The Cricket Match between Sussex and Kent, at Brighton 1849
BPC00141 The title continues: ‘This plate is most respectfully dedicated by special permission to HRH Prince Albert.’ There is another, coloured version of this image at BPC00139. There is... Read More
Full view of ‘The Victoria Fountain, Brighton. Erected May 26th 1846’
BPC00153 Wide version of BPC00152 Sepia-tinted lithograph by T Walton after T Earp. Published 26 May 1846, the day of the actual unveiling of the fountain, by W H Mason, King’s Road, Brighton. The A... Read More
Royal Cricket Grounds, Brighton
BPC00140 Steel engraving published by W Leppard, East Street, c1840. This c1840 engraving of the Royal Cricket Ground shows the land on which Park Crescent now stands. On the left of the scene are the... Read More
Brighton, From The Sea
BPC00452 Wood engraving from the Illustrated London News of 15 February 1845. The large central building is the Albion Hotel (the title ‘Royal’ was given to the hotel after the owner, Sir Harry P... Read More
Detail of The Queens Hotel taken from ‘Fish Market on the Beach, Brighton – from the sea’
BPC00172 Detail of BPC00024 Steel engraving by T Jeavons after George Atwick. Published by W Grant, 5 Castle Square, Brighton. Images of Brighton puts a circa 1865 date to this print, but it was one o... Read More
East View of the Chain Pier from the Beach, Brighton
BPC00092 Steel engraving by T Jeavons after Richard G Atwick, published by W Grant, 5 Castle Square, Brighton. This is one of a series of 17 plates that Grant had engraved by Jeavons, after Nibbs or A... Read More