Sujet

Watering-Places of Devon - Exmouth, from Starcross, 1850. Creators: Birket Foster, Edmund Evans.

Légende

Watering-Places of Devon - Exmouth, from Starcross, 1850. 'Exmouth...is the oldest watering- place in the country, and was one of the principal ports of Devonshire in the reign of King John...An embankment was commenced early in the present century ; and a number of houses in the neighbourhood of the Parade and Beacon first gave to Exmouth the name of watering-place, and led to the buildings on the face or brow of the hill, called the Beacon-hill, which now forms the centre of its attractions..."The climate here," says Dr. Shapter, "partakes of the same character as that of the district, modified by the sea only; an inhabitant to whose opinion I would defer, thinks it more equable than any upon the coast, and that this may in some measure be owing to its exemption from the damp vapours so often experienced in the valley towns."' From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A33_286

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

45,8Mo (3,2Mo) / 42,0cm x 27,3cm / 4960 x 3225 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation sea coast England boat boats coastal British geography devon fishing boats fishing boat Victorian century Britain newspapers press B&W engraved engraving 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Exmouth geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper landscape Myles Birket Foster Birket Foster Foster Birket Foster Myles Birket Edmund Evans Evans Edmund Evans Edmund William Edmund William Evans Foster Miles Birket Foster Myles Miles Foster 19th-century