Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain

Dover's quay, cliff and castle, Canterbury's churches and Rochester's castle and bridge feature in these prints from the Ken...

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Dover's quay, cliff and castle, Canterbury's churches and Rochester's castle and bridge feature in these prints from the Kent volume of Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain, published by George Virtue in 1829. The views are after artists including George Sidney Shepherd, Henry Gastineau, William Henry Bartlett and George Campion, and they cover the harbours of Ramsgate and Sheerness as well as Dover, and the country houses and ruined palaces of Chevening, Cobham, Maidstone and Halling. Street scenes and regattas give the series a livelier tone than a purely antiquarian survey, while castle interiors and medieval gateways keep the architecture in view.

Dover's quay, cliff and castle, Canterbury's churches and Rochester's castle and bridge feature in these prints from the Kent volume of Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain, published by George Virtue in 1829. The views are after artists including George Sidney Shepherd, Henry Gastineau, William Henry Bartlett and George Campion, and they cover the harbours of Ramsgate and Sheerness as well as Dover, and the country houses and ruined palaces of Chevening, Cobham, Maidstone and Halling. Street scenes and regattas give the series a livelier tone than a purely antiquarian survey, while castle interiors and medieval gateways keep the architecture in view.

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