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“Thames Tunnel” hand-coloured print by William Tombleson

Object no. LDBRU:2024.5
Size 274 x 202
Date about 1834
Acquired

Purchase, early 2000s, unknown source

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Location

Printed image of the Thames Tunnel, done in steelplate engraving, with a border made up of doric columns supported by Atlas (?) on either side, a boat with British flag and Britannia sailing along the top edge, motifs of oars, and the words “Thames Tunnel” along the bottom. The central image has been hand-coloured.

Below the central image, ‘Tombleson del[ineavi]t’ [‘Drawn by Tombleson’] and ‘H. Winkles sculp[sit]’ [‘Engraved by H. Winkles’].

Taken from an edition of William Gray Fearnside, Eighty picturesque views on the Thames and Medway, engraved on steel by the first artists (first ed. published 1834).

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