sandgate view (5 risultati)

Hand-coloured steel engraving mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 8 x 7.5 inches approx. Engraved surface including margin, 4.5 x 3.5 inches. View of the recently built Sandgate Schools with a carriage, mounted figures and pedestrians on the road in the foreground. Sandgate's new National Schools were built in 1866 KENT VIEWS KENT.

Condizione: Upcott. Hand-coloured steel engraving mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 11 x 10 inches approx. Engraved surface, including margin, 7 x 5.75 inches. A view of the original Sandgate Castle, little changed from the time of Henry VIII, shortly before the interior was converted into a Martello tower, to match those under construction in its neighbourhood from 1805 onwards. There are two foreground figures looking out to sea where a small naval vessel flies the blue ensign. It is interesting that the Castle still flies the old union flag without the additional red stripe that signified the union of Britain and Ireland, which came into existence on 1st January, the first day of the new century, and the publication date of this print. It appears in book form in A Journey from London to the Isle of Wight, Vol. II, From Dover to the Isle of Wight, by Thomas Pennant (1801). KENT VIEWS KENT.

Condizione: Abbey. Hand-coloured lithograph mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 13 x 11 inches approx. Engraved surface including inner margin, 9 x 6.5 inches. View of Sandgate from the east, with the post-Napoleonic Castle, old chapel and buildings at the foot of Sandgate Hill and in the High Street beyond; distant view of Martello towers on the heights and along the shore of Hythe Bay. From G. Rowe's 'Illustrations of Hastings and its Vicinity'. KENT VIEWS KENT.

Hand-coloured lithograph mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 22 x 15.5 inches approx. Printed surface within inner margin, 13 x 10 inches. Dramatic view of a two-masted sailing ship wrecked off Sandgate Castle. There is a rescue boat alongside the wreck and rescuers on the shore heave on a line to the beach. In the foreground are rocks and the ship's rudder, which has carried away. This plate was originally issued as part of Hullmandel and Harding's Britannia Delineata: Comprising Views of the Antiquities, Remarkable Buildings Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain. Kent (1822). It was the first of a series proposed to illustrate every county but, because of its high cost, it was a publishing failure and only Kent was ever issued. KENT VIEWS KENT.

Hand-coloured lithograph mounted in conservation materials suitable for framing, overall size 17.5 x 15 inches approx. Printed surface within inner margin, 14 x 11 inches. It depicts the chapel viewed from the northwest with sheep grazing in the foreground and a horse-drawn carriage ascending Military Road on the right, with the High Street and sea visible beyond; in the background is Martello Tower no. 4 at the end of the Leas. A fine example. Rare lithographic view of the Episcopal Chapel at Sandgate, built in the Palladian style, with cupola on top. The Earl of Darnley built the 'Episcopal Chapel' on a plot of land from his adjoining estate and it was consecrated on 8 May 1822. Sandgate was developing rapidly at that time and a larger church was required. The earlier building was demolished in 1848 and a new, more commodious church, St. Paul's, was completed the following year. Thomas Purday was established as a bookseller and owner of the circulating library at Sandgate as early as 1816. He published a Sandgate, Folkestone and Hythe Guide in the 1840s and passed his business on to his daughters, Sarah and Mary Ann, who reissued the guide wth their own imprint about 1846. It is possible that the view of the Chapel was issued as a consequence of its impending demolition and replacement. KENT VIEWS KENT.