Viva Brighton Issue #62 April 2018
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CURATOR’S CHOICE<br />
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cost. With so many high-quality colour<br />
illustrations, it was expensive to produce.<br />
Had it included text, Nash would have<br />
been required by law to submit several<br />
free copies to legal deposit libraries such<br />
as the British Library and the Bodleian<br />
Library in Oxford. By not using any<br />
text, Nash was able to save a lot of<br />
money. In 1838, during the early years<br />
of Queen Victoria’s reign, Nash’s Views<br />
was published again, as Illustrations of<br />
her Majesty’s Palace at <strong>Brighton</strong>, this time<br />
with 18 pages of text by Edward Wedlake<br />
Brayley. This is the first detailed<br />
description and a history of the building<br />
in printed form.<br />
Alexandra Loske, Curator and Art Historian<br />
You can see and download digitised copies<br />
of the wordless Nash’s Views from 1826<br />
for free on the Royal Pavilion website:<br />
brightonmuseums.org.uk<br />
Images courtesy of Royal Pavilion & <strong>Brighton</strong> Museums<br />
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