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Young Amphibious.
G. Earp del. Charles J. Besebe Lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Published July 1.st 1844, by W.H. Mason, Repository of Arts, Brighton. London, Ackermann & Co. Strand,_Reeves & Son, Cheapside.
A very rare lithograph. 255 x 368mm. 10 x 14½". Some foxing on right.
A view at Brighton, with the pier behind; a woman hold her naked child over the water, with a traditional beach bathing box on wheels to left. For Mason's "Fashionable Handbook for Visitors to Brighton", c.1846. In regency times and later when bathing at Brighton the bather floats or "Bobs" while being supervised. The supervisors where called "dippers" who pushed the bathers through the waves, keeping them afloat, then helped them back into the bathing machine. Brighton’s most famous dipper was Martha Gunn, a large, sturdy woman whose fame exists to this day. See ref:Ref: 5306 for a portrait of Martha Gunn. See Ford: 128. "Images of Brighton".
[Ref: 23960] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
Norfolk Suspension Bridge, Shoreham. To his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, This Print is most Respectfully Dedicated By his obedient humble Servant, W.H. Mason.
Mr. G.Earp, Pinxt.
Repository of Arts, 1, Ship St. Brighton, May 1st 1833.
Rare coloured lithograph on chine collé, laid on printed backing paper. Sheet 270 x 365mm (10¾ x 14½"). Stains.
Norfolk Bridge, designed by William Tierney Clarke and Captain Samuel Brown, opened 1834, replaced 1923.
[Ref: 56708] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
Norfolk Suspension Bridge, Shoreham.
Mr. G.Earp, Pinxt.
[n.d., c.1834.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 190 x 275mm (7½ x 10¾").
Norfolk Bridge, designed by William Tierney Clarke and Captain Samuel Brown, opened 1834, replaced 1923.
[Ref: 52997] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Norfolk Bridge, New Shoreham. Built at the Expense of Bernard Edward, Duke of Norfolk, Hereditary Earl Marshal of England. Under the Direction of William Tierney, Esq.re Civil Engineer.
Mr. G.Earp, Pinxt.
[n.d., c.1836.]
Rare aquatint. 295 x 420mm (11½ x 16½"). Trimmed into plate at top, surface abrasions and cockling. Large margins on 3 sides.
The first Norfolk Bridge, a chain link suspension bridge across the River Adur, designed of W. Tierney Clark and Captain Samuel Browne, built in 1832 by Bernard and Edward Howard, opened in 1833.. The northern tower arch had a decorative lion and the southern had a horse. See: Ref: 52997
[Ref: 57098] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
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