Category: Wood engraving
A series of five wood engravings
BPC00469 A series of five wood engravings, views from Knight’s 1854 publication The Land we Live In. These scenes are ‘Brunswick Terrace & Square’, ‘Pavilion’, ‘Victoria Fountain’, â... Read More
Brighton Fortified before the Armada 1588
BPC00465 Wood engraving from Old Brighton, Old Preston, Old Hove by Frederick Harrison and J S North, published Market Street, Brighton 1937, illustrated on page 46. This view shows that part of the ... Read More
Detail of the Station
BPC00375 Wood engraving by one of the Dalziel brothers, published on a single sheet above a view of St Nicholas Church, signed on the far right tombstone of the lower print. Published by Charles Knig... Read More
The Brighton Viaduct across the Preston-Road
BPC00442 There is a close-up view of this image: click here to see the detail Wood engraving from the Illustrated London News, 13 June 1846. With this viaduct the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway ... Read More
Town Hall, Bartholomews, Brighton
BPC00436 Wood engraving, published in W Pearce’s New Plan of Brighton c1865. Images of Brighton 829 and illustrated on page 133. See all images of town halls... Read More
Sketches at Brighton – at the Railway Station
BPC00373 Wood engraving from Brighton: the Road, the Place, the People, published by J H Thomson, 49 Fleet Street, 1862. The publisher describes the illustrations as being ‘prepared expressly for’... Read More
The Brighton Regatta – The Start for the Shipowners’ Race
BPC00339 Wood engraving from the Illustrated London News, 30 July 1853. An account of this regatta is in J G Bishop’s The Brighton Chain Pier in Memoriam. On page 39 of this 1896 publication, Bishop... Read More
Hope Defer’d – Brighton
BPC00313 (this is a very small original image – see note on image sizes) Unrecorded engraving – possibly by Robert Cruikshank. Cruikshank published a Comic Sketch of Brighton in 1830 (seven wo... Read More