Lot Essay
Laid down. Some abrasion, repaired one inch tear.
Details
After H. JONES
Ireland's Royal Brighton Gardens
hand-coloured aquatint by George Hunt, Brighton: published by C. & R. Sickelmore, [ca. 1827], 150 x 290mm. (6½ x 11½in.), framed and glazed.
Ireland's Royal Brighton Gardens
hand-coloured aquatint by George Hunt, Brighton: published by C. & R. Sickelmore, [ca. 1827], 150 x 290mm. (6½ x 11½in.), framed and glazed.
Literature
Issued as Plate no. 4 of Sickelmore's Select Views of Brighton (ca. 1827) and then of the same publisher's Descriptive Views of Brighton (ca. 1830). The Noblest Game 50: "Joseph Ireland, formerly a line-draper and haberdasher in Brighton, openened his Gardens -- designated 'Royal' by George IV -- in 1822 in opposition to the Tivoli strawberry gardens ... but the venture failed and the gardens were closed as a commercial concern in 1836." Pageant of Cricket p. 62: "where the third experimental roundarm match was played in 1827."