Great Britain Illustrated

Castle ruins stand beside new exchanges, town halls and docks in the engravings of Great Britain Illustrated, a portrait of ...

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Castle ruins stand beside new exchanges, town halls and docks in the engravings of Great Britain Illustrated, a portrait of the country caught between its picturesque past and its booming towns at the start of the 1830s. William Westall made the drawings, Edward Finden engraved or directed the plates and Thomas Moule wrote the descriptions for Charles Tilt's London publication, issued between 1830 and 1835. The views move between cathedral cities, coastal towns and industrial centres, among them Canterbury, Brighton, Carlisle, Liverpool and Manchester, with bridges and riverside prospects showing each place in its working landscape. Medieval gateways and abbeys recall an older Britain within the same tour.

Castle ruins stand beside new exchanges, town halls and docks in the engravings of Great Britain Illustrated, a portrait of the country caught between its picturesque past and its booming towns at the start of the 1830s. William Westall made the drawings, Edward Finden engraved or directed the plates and Thomas Moule wrote the descriptions for Charles Tilt's London publication, issued between 1830 and 1835. The views move between cathedral cities, coastal towns and industrial centres, among them Canterbury, Brighton, Carlisle, Liverpool and Manchester, with bridges and riverside prospects showing each place in its working landscape. Medieval gateways and abbeys recall an older Britain within the same tour.

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