Budleigh prints in sale
Two antique engravings of Budleigh Salterton will attract keen interest from local collectors at a Silver, Collectors and General Sale in Exmouth on Monday 7 October. The Museum’s Antiquities Consultant and auctioneer Piers Motley-Nash, owner of Bicton Street Auction Rooms, describes both examples as original and in good condition, framed and glazed. Lot 297, shown above, is a tinted engraving published in 1822 by John Wallis’ Royal Marine Library, noted for his publications and topographical prints of Sidmouth. The Library, first opened to the public by Wallis on 20 June 1809, was one of the first Regency houses to be built on Sidmouth’s seafront and was a popular meeting-place for summer visitors. Wallis himself was a bookseller, publisher and business associate of the celebrated London print shop owner Rudolph Ackerman. The Royal Marine Library is now the Bedford Hotel. The second item, Lot 296 shown above, is describ...