Category: Miscellaneous
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
In Commemoration of the Opening of the Shoreham Branch of the London and Brighton Railway, May 1840
BPC00372 Aquatint engraving by Charles Hunt, no artist named, but probably by H G Hine who drew the same view for publication as a lithograph which was dedicated to the shareholders of the railway com... Read More
Martha Gunn – The Old Brighton Bather
BPC00322 Aquatint, no artist or engraver named, published by Morris & Co, c1810. Born in 1726, Martha ‘dipped’ from around 1750 until ill health forced her retirement in 1814. She died in 1815... Read More
Phoebe Hessel
BPC00323 Lithograph by Vincent Brooks, printed by Day & Son Lithographers, and published in The History of Brighton and Environs by Alderman Henry Martin. John Beal, East Street, Brighton, 1871. ... Read More
A Noble Duke, taken on the Steyne at Brighton
BPC00319 Hand coloured copperplate etching, published 20 November 1801 by Dighton, Charing Cross. Inscribed ‘Duke of Grafton’. From a series of Brighton subjects by Robert Dighton (1752-1814). See... Read More
John Standing, the Brighton Matchman, aged 77
BPC00320 Copperplate line engraving, drawn and etched by John Bruce and published by him in Brighton, 1829. With 12 lines of verse. Standing is described in Erredge’s History of Brighthelmstone. He ... Read More
The Evening Party in the Yellow Room at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton
BPC00304 Aquatint, published by Sherwood Jones & Co, 1824, then as plate 18 in The English Spy in 1825. This is an imaginary scene featuring the Duke of York, Princess Augusta and HM King George ... Read More