Description
The great British high street, The Brighton Lanes. – an integral part of daily lives and a critical component of any community. Here we see a shopping parade circa the mid to late 1860s. Traditional trade shops offer their wares and services from bay-fronted windows while pub signs beckon weary travellers in for a refreshing pit-stop. The use of straight lines seen here can be said to mirror the sense of structure and order that institutions such as the high street helped to offer to society as geopolitical interests and advances in science evolved on the spin of a penny.
Signed aa C Blanshard, Painted in 1965.
