2-721-143 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Town of Rye', 1835. In medieval times, Rye was an important member of the Cinque Ports confederation on the English Channel, and almost entirely surrounded by sea. Engraved by Henry Alexander Ogg after a drawing by Thomas Henwood. From "The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex, Volume the First", by Thomas Walker Horsfield, F.S.A. [Baxter, Sussex Press, Lewes; Messrs. Nichols and Son, London, (1835)]