Chesil Beach Portland England – Vintage Wall Art
![Chesil Beach Portland England, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3b/3b479172af4c-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Chesil Beach Portland England, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Chesil Beach Portland England
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Chesil Beach is a long bank of shingle that runs for roughly 18 miles along the Dorset coast, joining the mainland to the Isle of Portland. The pebbles are known for grading in size from west to east, a feature that made the beach a subject of local interest. This photochrom print was made in the 1890s by a process developed in Switzerland, which produced color images by hand-registering several lithographic stones from a single photograph. The Detroit Publishing Company later issued these views in the United States, and this example appears in its 1905 catalog of English scenes.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 10792. Views of England |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,628 × 2,748 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 692_Chesil_Beach_Portland_E_1890.tif-08792u |
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