Category: 1840s
Brighton from Rose Hill
BPC00458 Steel engraving, no artists mentioned, published by W Leppard of 17 East Street, January 1842. Today the residential streets now called Rose Hill and Rose Hill Close are either side of the Di... Read More
View from Queen’s Road. Collonnade Inn in a direct line to the Sea: The Eye Infirmary & Dispensary on the left (Distance from the Sea 400 Yards)
BPC00457 (this is a very small original image – see note on image sizes) Steel engraving published by Kershaw & Son, London c1845. This print is a letter heading. Images of Brighton 1076 See... Read More
A Perspective View of the Steyne at Brighthelmstone, in the year 1778, from the South End
BPC00392 A lithograph, no artist mentioned, published c1849, after the larger line engraving by Peter Mazell after John Donowell (see BPC00490). In the original Donowell engraving, the key numbers are... Read More
The Old Steine, Brighton, from Major General Sir Arthur Clifton’s House
BPC00388 Steel engraving by J Newman after F W Woledge, published by Andrews, 11 St James’s Street, 1840, then in Woledge’s Six Views of Brighton, 1842. Major General Sir Arthur Benjamin Clifton ... Read More
The London and Brighton Railway Terminus. Brighton
BPC00377 Aquatint engraved by George Earp Junior after the original drawing (BPC00376) by the architect David Mocatta. Published by W H Mason, June 1841, about three months before the London line was ... Read More
View of the Brighton Station, of the London and Brighton Railway
BPC00376 Lithograph by G Childs from the original drawing by the architect David Mocatta. Published by Ackermann & Co, 21 September 1841. The next publication by W H Mason used the same drawing by... Read More
Brighton, From the New Church at the entrance of the Town
BPC00450 Steel engraving by Newman & Co, Watling Street, London c1845 from an original drawing by John Bruce. The Gloucester Hotel sign has the owner as Maxfield, who bought the hotel at auction i... Read More
This print of The Viaduct, in commemoration of the opening throughout of the Brighton & London Railway, Sept 21st 1841
BPC00443 Aquatint after George Earp Junior, published 21 September 1841 by W H Mason, Repository of Arts, 81 King’s Road, Brighton. Mason adds the technical details: ‘37 Arches 30 feet span 100 fe... Read More