a charming sketch by the Brighton-born artist, Richard Henry Nibbs (1816-1893), a characteristic Sussex coastal scene, still easily recognisable over 170 years later, depicting small fishing vessels pulled up onto the shingle in front of the tall, thin, net huts on the Stade, now Grade II listed buildings, set beneath the cliffs of the East Hill, the date of July 7th, 1846, inscribed lower right,
pencil on thick wove paper, 125 x 215 mm (5 x 8 1/2 in), inscribed in pencil lower right, an unidentified red ink-stamped collector’s mark, the initials HNPS on the lobes of a quatrefoil within a red circular border [not in Lugt], on verso, hinged into mount,