Category: Wood engraving
Miss Widgett’s Library, South of the Steine, 1779 – The Post Office
BPC00234 Wood engraving published in J G Bishop’s 1880 and 1892 editions of A Peep into the Past: Brighton in the Olden Time. The first library on the Steine was built on the east side by the Tunbri... Read More
Kemp Town, from the Beach and Kemp Town, looking towards Brighton
BPC00209 Wood engravings after William Harvey (1796–1866), printed on one page and published in The Land We Live In, 1851. Images of Brighton 1149 and 1150 See all images of the Kemptown Estate in ... Read More
The Unicorn Inn about 1865
BPC00188 Wood engraving published in J G Bishop’s 1892 edition of A Peep into the Past: Brighton in the Olden Time, illustrated opposite page 204. Also illustrated in Old Brighton, Old Preston, Ol... Read More
The White Lion Hotel, about 1858
BPC00176 Wood engraving published in J G Bishop’s 1892 edition of A Peep into the Past: Brighton in the Olden Time, illustrated opposite page 202. Also illustrated in Old Brighton, Old Preston, Old ... Read More
The Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital
BPC00160 Wood engraving from the Graphic, 30 July 1881. The building was designed by Thomas Lainson (1825-1898), a prolific local architect who also designed the Middle Street Synagogue, the private ... Read More
The Prince and Princess of Wales visiting a Ward in the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital
BPC00156 (this is a very small original image – see note on image sizes) Wood engraving from the Graphic 30 July 1881. Illustrated in The Victorian Development of the Clifton, Montpelier and P... Read More
The Old Dyke House
BPC00146 Wood engraving, signed on the plate by the artist Richard Henry Nibbs. Its origin is uncertain but likely to be from either the Graphic or the Illustrated London News c1880. The Dyke House ... Read More
Grand Cricket Match at Brighton
BPC000137 Hand-coloured wood engraving from the ‘Illustrated London News’, 24 August 1844. There are only three known cricket engravings of Brighton. This is showing Ireland’s Cricket Grounds, ... Read More