1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Regency Shop, Market Street, Lewes is a 1940 watercolor by Charles Knight, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a quiet street view in Lewes from 1940. It’s part of a project called Recording Britain that documented towns at risk during World War Two. The artist painted a Regency-style shop in North Street, even though the title says Market Street. The work captures a moment when nearby buildings were bombed and later torn down. The shop survived but lost its fancy windows. A phone exchange popped up in the empty space right next to it. See more by the same hand: artist: Charles Knight.
Charles Knight’s watercolour *Regency Shop, Market Street, Lewes* was produced in 1940 as part of the "Recording Britain" project, a wartime initiative to document sites at risk from bombing. The painting depicts a Regency-era shop at 5 North Street, Lewes, though nearby buildings were later destroyed in air raids and replaced by a postwar telephone exchange. Part of the "Recording the changing face of Britain" scheme led by Sir Kenneth Clark, the work aimed to preserve images of places that embodied national identity during the Second World War. The collection focused on English towns and…
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Charles Knight was a British landscape painter and stained-glass artist, best remembered for his watercolour paintings of the landscapes of Sussex.
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