Hand-Coloured Lithograph, heightened with gum arabic, showing train and shipping, by Day & Son,
Stephenson's Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits was opened in 1850. Telford's road bridge in the background was built between 1820 and 1826. Francis Klingender in "Art and the Industrial Revolution", observes in the 1840s, how artists moved away from depicting the railways themselves to the bridges which carried them. He writes of George Hawkins [1810-52], "his masterpieces are a series of tinted lithographs of the building of the Stephenson tubular bridges over the Conway and the Menai Strait." Here Hawkins shows how even in a remote and sublime location the world is busy with modern communication by train and shipping. Below the image are details of the bridges.
Hand-Coloured Lithograph, heightened with gum arabic, showing train and shipping, by Day & Son,
Stephenson's Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits was opened in 1850. Telford's road bridge in the background was built between 1820 and 1826. Francis Klingender in "Art and the Industrial Revolution", observes in the 1840s, how artists moved away from depicting the railways themselves to the bridges which carried them. He writes of George Hawkins [1810-52], "his masterpieces are a series of tinted lithographs of the building of the Stephenson tubular bridges over the Conway and the Menai Strait." Here Hawkins shows how even in a remote and sublime location the world is busy with modern communication by train and shipping. Below the image are details of the bridges.
| Condition | mark on imprint to right, |
| Publication | Published T. Catherall, Chester & Bangor, 1852. 9.5in x 12.25in |
- Product Code: RGW9744
- Availability: In Stock
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£65.00