Foster Myles Birket Collection

Birkett Foster's "Pictures of English Landscape": the Stepping-stones, 1862. Creator: Dalziel Brothers
Birkett Foster's "Pictures of English Landscape": the Stepping-stones, 1862. Among books recently published

Children in a Cart. Creator: Birket Foster
Children in a Cart

Illustration for Longfellow's "The Rainy Day", 1850s. Creator: Birket Foster
Illustration for Longfellow's "The Rainy Day", 1850s

An Evening Landscape with Tall Trees. Creator: Birket Foster
An Evening Landscape with Tall Trees

An Evening Landscape with a Hay Wagon. Creator: Birket Foster
An Evening Landscape with a Hay Wagon

An Evening Landscape with a Distant Cathedral. Creator: Birket Foster
An Evening Landscape with a Distant Cathedral

Title Page for "Ellen Seymour". Creator: Birket Foster. Title Page for "Ellen Seymour"
Title Page for "Ellen Seymour"

The Mistletoe Seller, drawn by Foster, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans
The Mistletoe Seller, drawn by Foster, 1854. Illustration to a story by Angus B. Reach. There he goes, on the foggy December night, over the crunkling snow, the old Mistletoe-seller

Buxton - The Crescent, New Baths, etc, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans
Buxton - The Crescent, New Baths, etc, 1854. Derbyshire spa town:.one of the most celebrated watering-places in England for the cure of gout

Young Girl in an Orchard with a Basket of Fruit, c.1850. Creator: Birket Foster
Young Girl in an Orchard with a Basket of Fruit, c.1850

Watering-Places of England - Folkestone, Kent, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
Watering-Places of England - Folkestone, Kent, 1850. Whoever turns to the Second Volume of our Journal, may there see how Folkestone started in the year 1842 from a little town of narrow streets

Watering-Places of Devon - Exmouth, from Starcross, 1850. Creators: Birket Foster, Edmund Evans
Watering-Places of Devon - Exmouth, from Starcross, 1850. Exmouth...is the oldest watering- place in the country, and was one of the principal ports of Devonshire in the reign of King John...An

Watering-Places of Devon - Sidmouth, 1850. Creators: Birket Foster, Edmund Evans
Watering-Places of Devon - Sidmouth, 1850. Sidmouth...lies picturesquely sheltered. The beach is nearly in the centre of one of those hollows or curves which are abundant within the vast bay of Devon

Ramsgate Harbour, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
Ramsgate Harbour, [Kent], 1850. Early in the present century, a stone lighthouse was erected on the west pier...The harbour includes an area of forty-eight acres

Doncaster Races - the Road to the Course, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
Doncaster Races - the Road to the Course, 1850. Horse racing in Yorkshire. The Meeting attracted an immense and very respectable assemblage

All A-Blowing! All A-Growing!, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
All A-Blowing! All A-Growing!, 1850. Illustration to "Spring-Time in London", a story by Thomas Miller. "All a-blowing! all a-growing

Watering-Places of England - Dover: the Town and Heights, 1850. Creators: Birket Foster, Edmund Evans
Watering-Places of England - Dover: the Town and Heights, 1850. Owing to the clearness of the water, and the gradual declivity of the shore

Watering-Places of England - Clifton, from Leigh Wood, 1850. Creators: Birket Foster, Edmund Evans
Watering-Places of England - Clifton, from Leigh Wood, 1850. Clifton, near Bristol, differs from the other watering-places in being far distant from the sea

The First Shipment of Coals in the New Sunderland Docks, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The First Shipment of Coals in the New Sunderland Docks, [Tyne & Wear], 1850. The entrance to the dock itself is 60 feet wide; the depth of water at the quays will be 20 feet

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