Collection
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel Commemorative £2 Coin
Since the 1998 introduction of bi-metallic £2 coins, the Royal Mint has issued numerous commemorative editions of the coins. These editions have often focussed on science and technology. In 2006, as part of the bicentenary of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s birth, the Mint issued two coins depicting Brunel and his works. This coin depicts the vaulted …
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Commemorative £2 Coin
Since the 1998 introduction of bi-metallic £2 coins, the Royal Mint has issued numerous commemorative editions of the coins. These editions have often focussed on science and technology. In 2006, as part of the bicentenary of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s birth, the Mint issued two coins depicting Brunel and his works. This coin, designed by Rod …
Photograph of the Brunels’ Rotherhithe Home
This is an albumen print of a photograph of the Brunels’ house at 26 Cow Court, immediately south of the Thames Tunnel works. The photograph has been mounted on card, with a printed portrait of Marc Isambard Brunel below. The photograph is commemorative, certainly datable to after the death of Marc Isambard Brunel in 1849, …
I.K. Brunel by the Launching Chains of the SS Great Eastern
Albumen print by Robert Howlett (1831-58)
Painted hand fan
Mid-/late 1700s painted folding hand fan, possibly French, with watercolour images on either side, and struts with metallic filigree and mother of pearl inlay. Image on the obverse portrays a series of couples standing in classically-inspired architecture. Image on the reverse portrays a couple on a swing in a rural setting. Formerly owned by Mary …
“Memoir of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel” by Richard Beamish
Copy of Richard Beamish’s Memoir of the Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1866), with a number of manuscript annotations on the flyleaves documenting the Brunel family’s genealogy. The volume also contains a manuscript dedication from John Kennedy (later Rev. John Kennedy, headmaster of Aldenham School, Herts., 1877-99) to Philip Edward Lee, dated 1865 on …
Marc Brunel shoe buckles
Pair of rounded oblong shoe buckles, originally belonging to Marc Brunel, decorated with paste glass gemstones
Cheque signed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel
A cheque from Isambard Kingdom Brunel dated December 8th 1835
Marc Brunel mezzotint
This print depicts Marc Brunel early in his career in Britain, before work had begun on the Thames Tunnel. The print was published on 30 March 1815 by Charles Turner (1773-1857), a London engraver and publisher. The print reproduces a painting of Brunel done in 1812-13 by James Northcote which was first exhibited in 1814, …