NEWHAVEN BRIDGE
Print from a copper etched plate.
By Rob Patten
Any time I am back in the UK I try and get to a little shop in the Lanes called the Witches Ball. It is full of old maps and prints for sale. I recently found this print described as 'Newhaven Bridge Sussex', hand-coloured and engraved on copper. Dated 1790. The bridge would have been constructed six years earlier in 1784.
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The First Newhaven Bridge
Coloured print from etching 1790