Yale Center for British Art

Title:

Sickelmore's select views of Brighton.

Alternate Title(s):

Select views of Brighton

Published / Created:

Brighton : Printed and published by C. and R. Sickelmore, letter-press and copper-plate printers, [1827]

Physical Description:

[1] leaf, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 x 48 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2014 8
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Caption title: Sickelmores' views of Brighton.

Cover title.

Date of publication from Abbey.

Aquatint engravings by George Hunt; after Edward Fox, S.J.E. Jones, and H. Jones.

First leaf printed in four columns (within elaborate engraved border), listing and describing the plates.

Ford, J. Images of Brighton, page 363

Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 63

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in publisher's original yellow printed wrappers.

Contents:

Pavilion, Brighton -- Brighton Suspension Pier -- Brighton Chain Pier. In a storm -- Ireland's Royal Brighton Gardens -- General view of Kemp town -- East Cliff Brighton, storm approaching -- Marine Parade, Brighton -- The Temple, the seat of R.T. Kemp Esqr. Brighton -- The Battery, Brighton.

Subject Terms:

Brighton (England) -- Pictorial works. | Architecture, Domestic -- England -- Brighton. | C. and R. Sickelmore -- Publisher.

Form/Genre:

Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1827.

Contributors:

Hunt, George, active 1824–1831, engraver. | Fox, Edward, 1790–1854, illustrator. | Jones, Samuel John Egbert, active 1820–1855, illustrator. | Jones, H., illustrator.