I am unsure as to the date of the drawing; the cross was originally the centre of Penzance and was roughly where the white horse stands. The illustration appears in a book by an American traveller named Joel Cook; I was given a tip by 'Chillywilly'; another source of the book appears to have another illustration, but with the same title, I would like to check that out before it is uploaded, it shows a radically different architecture than any I have 'seen' in Penzance, more suited to Chester.
This 'drawing' is probably by B le Fanu, a well known illustrator, who has other 'drawings' in the book, notably one of St Michael's Mount, that dated 1878. The book itself is dated 1882. After looking at the 1836 original at http://picturepenzance.co.uk/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11790, I am left with the distinct impression that it was a copy of that, with some licence.
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