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Description: | Colour lithograph . This print depicts the view from Holm Bush Hill in Dorset, which includes the coast of Dorset and the town of Lyme Regis. A similar view, published by J. Newman of London, was used as an illustration to ‘The Beauties of Lyme Regis’ (1857), which gives an historical and descriptive account of the town and the surrounding area. The book was written by Rowland Brown and published by Daniel Dunster of Broad Street, Lyme Regis. However, this print is clearly later than the illustration, as the town has become more developed.
The second edition of ‘The Beauties of Lyme Regis’ was issued in 1860. In the back of the publication Dunster advertises 15 prints of views in or around Lyme Regis, including this example, which is available ‘colored [sic] or tinted’. An example of the tinted version is now in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. As well as his main business of ‘Bookseller, stationer, book-binder, copper-plate, and letter-press printer, circulating library, & c.’, Dunster also advertises ‘Houses to be let’, ‘Piano Fortes, on Sale or Hire’, and ‘A select stock of Perfumery… [including] oil, fancy soaps, dentifrice, and every other Toilet requisite’. | Subjects: | shore hill ship harbour house field topography seascape/coastal scene tree bay thatched roof woman path man | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | George Hawkins Jnr (Engraver) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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