Panorama consisting of 12 sheets conjoined, and measuring 16 x 555 cm, presenting an uncoloured aquatint view of Weymouth Bay, attached to, and folding out from a portfolio measuring 21 x 26 cm, the portfolio made of wood and board, and lined with marbled paper, with printed designs (as discussed below), later cloth reback, and recent silk ties, but not detracting from this being a very desirable item. A superb view, showing the coast from Portland Bill to Lulworth Cove, with place names along the bottom edge. The covers are particularly interesting, the upper, with the printed title and a picture of a curious viewing-cabinet, designed, one assumes, for viewing this panorama (indeed see https://gordonlepard.com/2016/08/11/reconstructing-the-regency-the-weymouth-cyclorama/). On the back cover is a label advertising Elizabeth Groves’ Library and Fancy Repository, and listing her services and publications, including an ‘Authorama of Weymouth Town’. We know nothing of who the artist was, however as the Cycloramique exhibits a certain naivety we presume it was commissioned from a local amateur artist. The publisher Elizabeth Groves was active in Weymouth from about 1832 to 1852 when she retired and sold her business. Groves was local to the area being born about 1801 at Melcombe Regis a few hundred yards from her stationers business in St Mary’s Street. She appears to have lived in Weymouth throughout her life until her death in 1870. She advertised her panorama for the summer season of 1836 stating ‘This Work gives an exact idea of the effect produced by the beauty of the ensemble of that delightful Bay, as seen at a usual and convenient distance from the shore. The length of the View is about 17 feet, the height 7 inches. It clearly displays Castles, Signals, Lighthouses, Villages, Rocks, Caves, and all other principal objects of interest: the Town of Weymouth alone occupies four feet.’ Groves also published during the 1830’s local guides and prints and supplying artists materials to visitors. Abbey, Life, 479.