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[picture: Front Cover, Sussex]

Pictures from Sussex Painted by Wilfrid Ball (1906).

Wilfrid Ball was born in 1853 and died in 1917.

Title: Sussex Painted

Author: Ball, Wilfrid

Published by: Adam & Charles Black

City: London

Date: 1906

Total items: 11

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

Some sample images

[picture: 86.---Pevensey Castle]

86.—Pevensey Castle

“The Rape of Pevensey is of a curious shape. [Sussex is divided into six regions called Rapes] It narrows somewhat towards the middle and bulges out towards the top, or north end. This appears to be the contrary of what one would expect in a Sussex division, the important part of which always lay round the sea cost [to the south], but the cause of the shape thus assumed by the Rape is that in its northern part the iron industry had arisen long [...] government of the area and the collection of taxes from it a subject of ambition for the strongest of the neighbouring lords. [more...] [$]

[picture: Mickleham Priory]

Mickleham Priory

Ths priory shown here was by 1906 a private dwelling; there was a priory in the village of Mickleham as far back as 1253; there was a church in the village [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Front Cover, Sussex]

Front Cover, Sussex

By 1906 most books were being sold already bound, and cover designs were very much part of attracting sales. This book is bound in dark green cloth, with greenish-yellow writing and [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Singleton.]

Singleton.

The village of Singleton in Sussex was mentioned (according to this book) in the Domesday Book, and has (or had) a manor associated with it. In this bucolic painting we see ducks heading [more...] [$]

[picture: 105.---Arundel Castle]

105.—Arundel Castle

Parts of Arundel Castle date as far back as A.D. 1068. Since 1138 the castle has for the most part belonged to the same family and their descendents; it has been the seat of the Dukes of Norfolk for the past 850 years or so, and open in the Summer to visitors for the past 200 years. As with most such [...] [more...] [$]


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Arundel ·Battle ·Bodiam ·East Sussex ·Glynde ·Herstmonceaux ·Mickleham ·Pevensey ·Robertsbridge ·Singleton ·Sussex ·none

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