Havell, Junior (Robert) Costa Scena, or a Cruise along the Southern Coast of Kent, hand-coloured aquatint panorama with engraved title at beginning and 62 numbered scenes, c.80 x 5650mm., on conjoined sheets forming continuous strip, title and very beginning of strip a little browned, small tear to lower edge of first scene at Greenwich (repaired without loss), torn across at scene 31 between Kingsgate and Broadstairs but neatly repaired, overall an excellent clean and bright copy on roller housed in original boxwood drum covered in glazed orange & black aquatint label depicting Britannia and Neptune, drum c.125mm. tall, a little worn and wormed, [Abbey, Life 490; Bobins1601], Robert Havell & Son (imprint supplied in contemporary ink manuscript on title), 1823.

⁂ Rare panorama depicting George IV beginning his "Northern Excursion" in 1822, a state visit to Scotland organised by Sir Walter Scott. The strip shows his embarkation at Greenwich in the Royal George and then follows the Kent coast past Margate, Ramsgate, the white cliffs of Dover, across the Channel in rough weather, and finishing at Calais.

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