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Details
RARE BURGESS VIEW OF DOVER
Publisher
Published by T. Rigden. Dover.,
Date
1844
Synopsis
From east cliff.
on stone by, w. burgess, printed at 19 st martins lane.
Item Description
Hand-coloured lithograph, 12 x 9 inches, with good margins.
Notes
A fine lithograph by the pre-eminent Dover artist and drawing master William Burgess. The view shows the sweep of regency buildings on the sea front and Shakespeare's Cliff in the distance. In the foreground is a group of trippers on donkeys moving along the road, and in a field two men are hay-making. Behind them is the Guilford Battery which was built below castle cliff in the 1780s, clearly showing two of the seven cannon which were originallly positioned here. By this date the old battery had been made redundant by advances in artillery and Dover's nineteenth century fortifications.
[Stock No. 17700]
Subjects
19th Century • Channel • Cinque Ports • Dover • East Kent • Kent • Prints • Prints/Maps • The Sea • Topography • Towns