Mount Ephraim. Tonbridge Wells; Unattributed Hand-Coloured Print c 1820

Description

Artist : Unattributed
Title : Mount Ephraim. Tonbridge Wells
Publisher : G Dawe (9 Southampton Place; New Road)
Colouration: Polychrome – hand coloured print
Size: 23.3 x 28.4cm
Image : A view looking north on the present London Road with St Helena cottage to the left centre and the Trinity Church to the far right; the Dudley Road/York Road area had yet to be developed.
Description : mounted and framed
Additional Information : Note the ‘old’ spelling of ‘Tonbridge Wells’ – the use of “Tunbridge Wells” was not formalised until the machinations of the GPO and the South Eastern Railway dictated that should be the ‘correct’ usage in the mid 19th century. George Dawe the print-maker died in 1829. hence the approximate date of the piece at c 1820; the extent of construction shown to the eastern side of London Road is also far less than that evidenced on the map in Colbran’s 1839 Tunbridge Wells Guide.