Entrance to Portsmouth Harbour. E. Finden engraving after E.W. Cooke.c1837.

$95.00

Antique print of Portsmouth Harbour with ocean-going ship and coastal vessels outside the harbour entrance circa 1837.

Lovely original steel engraving by E. Finden, from a drawing by E.W. Cooke, for Finden's "The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, Fishing Villages, and other Picturesque Objects on the English Coast", by William Finden (1787-1852), Edward Finden (1791-1857), and William Andrew Chatto (1799-1864). Published in London by Charles Tilt, circa 1836-1838. 

This engraving has later fine hand-colour. The page is rather soiled, with approximate measurements of image, 128 x 172mm (5 x 6.3/4 inches), and page, 207 x 267mm (8.1/8 x 10.1/2 inches).