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Category: Beach (no specific location)

The Beach at Brighton - from a drawing by Miss Runciman

The Beach at Brighton – from a drawing by Miss Runciman

Posted on 25th September 2018 by Mary McKean
BPC 00534 Wood engraving published Oct 8th 1859 in the Illustrated London News. IoB notes that Miss Runciman was an art teacher in Brighton. Images of Brighton 136... Read More
At Shoreham

At Shoreham

Posted on 26th August 201826th August 2018 by Mary McKean
BPC00539 Copper-plate soft ground etching by and after Samuel Prout and published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand in March 1816 for Prout’s ‘Studies of Boats and Coast Scenery for Landscape and Marine... Read More
Fishermen returning to Brighton

Fishermen returning to Brighton

Posted on 29th December 201729th December 2017 by Mary McKean
BPC00508 Comte after Philip James de Loutherbourg(1740 – 1811). Published by de Loutherbourg and sold by V. & R. Green, Bedford Square, London. July 1 1797. The pair to ‘Fishermen going on boa... Read More
On Brighton Beach

On Brighton Beach

Posted on 19th July 201729th August 2017 by Mary McKean
BPC00030 A view of a single rope house, inscribed on the plate with the title, then ‘EWC’ and ‘London Pub August 1st 1830’. From the E W Cooke publication as detailed in BPC00031.    ... Read More
Fish Market on the Beach, Brighton – from the sea

Fish Market on the Beach, Brighton – from the sea

Posted on 19th July 20177th November 2017 by Mary McKean
BPC00024. A detail of this image is available at BPC00172 Steel engraving by T Jeavons after George Atwick. Published by W Grant, 5 Castle Square, Brighton. Images of Brighton puts a circa 1865 date t... Read More
The Brighton Regatta – The Start for the Shipowners’ Race

The Brighton Regatta – The Start for the Shipowners’ Race

Posted on 29th May 201719th September 2017 by Mary McKean
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
Captain Warners' Experiment

Captain Warners’ Experiment

Posted on 16th February 20178th November 2017 by Mary McKean
BPC00057 Lithograph by Day & Haghe after Richard Henry Nibbs. Published by W H Mason, 81 King’s Road, and Ackermann & Co, London, 27 July 1844. The print has five lines of detailed text des... Read More
Sketches at Brighton – No: 1 – On the Beach – She Isn’t a Bathing Woman

Sketches at Brighton – No: 1 – On the Beach – She Isn’t a Bathing Woman

Posted on 12th February 201729th October 2017 by Mary McKean
BPC00032 Wood engraving from J H Thomson’s Brighton: The Road, The Place, The People 1862. This illustration was used as the frontispiece. The articles in this book were originally published in... Read More
Rope Houses etc on the Beach at Brighton

Rope Houses etc on the Beach at Brighton

Posted on 12th February 201721st October 2017 by Mary McKean
BPC00031 This is a copperplate etching by Edward William Cooke (1811-1880), from his Sixty-five plates of Shipping and Craft. London, 1829 -1830. This plate is number 1, published London, 1 August 1... Read More
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