A Pair of studies of fish in Brighton Aquarium/The Garden of the Neriedes, Gurnards from the Brighton Pavillion.
A Pair of studies of fish in Brighton Aquarium/The Garden of the Neriedes, Gurnards from the Brighton Pavillion.
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 - get dates! A Pair of studies of fish in Brighton Aquarium/The Garden of the Neriedes, Gurnards from the Brighton Pavillion. Fanny E Thomas - lived in Shortlands Kent and possibly Brighton? She exhibited at theGrosvenor gallery, 1880 x 2 pics and the Suffolk street gallery x 1 pic 1880.Where these ever exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1880 - look up in V&A. There is part of a ticket/label on the back L1880… Brighton Aquarium was the first aquarium in the country. It was conceived and designed by Eugenius Birch, the architect responsible for the West Pier. Inspired by a visit to the one in Boulogne. Work began in 1869 and the building opened in 1872. The project cost £133,000 (equivalent to around £5.5 million today). Amongst early attractions = octopus and first sea lions arrived in 1877.){kind=link}
Fanny E. Thomas (19th Century) - get dates!
A Pair of studies of fish in Brighton Aquarium/The Garden of the Neriedes, Gurnards from the Brighton Pavillion.
Fanny E Thomas - lived in Shortlands Kent and possibly Brighton?
She exhibited at theGrosvenor gallery, 1880 x 2 pics and the Suffolk street gallery x 1 pic 1880.
Where these ever exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1880 - look up in V&A. There is part of a ticket/label on the back L1880…
Brighton Aquarium was the first aquarium in the country. It was conceived and designed by Eugenius Birch, the architect responsible for the West Pier. Inspired by a visit to the one in Boulogne. Work began in 1869 and the building opened in 1872. The project cost £133,000 (equivalent to around £5.5 million today). Amongst early attractions = octopus and first sea lions arrived in 1877.