Sandgate, Looking West..
Watercolour, heightened with white, on fawn coloured artist's sketching paper. Pencil identification rather faint top right. and signed with initials E.A.S., an unidentified amateur. Purchased with 4 others by the same hand.
£95.00
Date
1844
Synopsis
[a view from the junction of lister way and castle road looking towards shorncliffe.]
Item Description
Naive watercolour painting, approx. 11 x 7.5 inches, in acid-free double window mount ready for framing.
Notes
A view looking down Castle Road from a point just east of the junction with Lister Way showing the site of what was to become the National School, which was not built until 1866. The escarpment, behind showing a few houses up Military Hill with Martello no. 6 in full view behind the land of the Enbrook estate. The white weather-boarded cottages at the foot of Sandgate Hill are glimpsed, as is the Episcopal Chapel built by the Earl of Darnley in 1822 which was replaced by St. Paul's in 1846.
[Stock No. 21356]
