Thorpe (John) After.

one of eight locally published scenes from ‘Mann’s Views of Hastings and St Leonard’s’, after the local artist, John Thorpe, who was born in nearby Fairlight in 1813, it shows the completed first phase of the elegant Georgian seaside resort, conceived and constructed by the most successful developer of the period, James Burton (1761-1837), hence the traditional name of Burton St Leonard’s. The viewpoint is on the early promenade contained by a simple and low sea wall, at about the point where the later 19th century St Leonard’s Pier would be sited, showing the end of the long colonnade on the right, followed by Burton’s own small villa, and then extending away to the west, towards Bulverhythe, Bexhill, and Beachy Head, the recreational purpose of the area emphasised by the elegantly dressed figures on the promenade and the horse-drawn bathing machines on the beach,

tinted lithograph by John Brandard, printed by M&N Hanhart, 235 x 290 mm. (9 1/4 x 11 3/8 in), slight creasing and splitting towards the sheet edges, well outside the image, [c.f. Abbey Scenery 166],