View on the Coast at Deal, ca. 1846, Watercolor with touches of gouache over graphite, sheet: 6 x 8 3/4 in. (15. 2 x 22. 2 cm), Drawings, Charles Bentley (British, London 1805/1806?1854 London), Bentley trained as an aquatint engraver of illustrated views and traveled through Britain seeking Picturesque subjects for his own accomplished watercolors. This luminous view represents Deal?a port on England's southeast coast of England where Julius Caesar first landed in Britain