Britannia Bridge--Carnarvon Tower, September 1848 / G. Hawkins, del. et lith. ; Day & Son lithrs. to the queen. – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Britannia Bridge--Carnarvon Tower, September 1848 / G. Hawkins, del. et lith. ; Day & Son lithrs. to the queen. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Britannia Bridge--Carnarvon Tower, September 1848 / G. Hawkins, del. et lith. ; Day & Son lithrs. to the queen.
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This view shows the Carnarvon tower of the Britannia Bridge, the rail crossing that carried the Chester and Holyhead line over the Menai Strait in north Wales, as it stood in September 1848. Robert Stephenson designed the bridge around wrought-iron tubes, large hollow box girders that trains ran through, and the stone towers at each end were built to carry them. G. Hawkins drew the scene and Day & Son printed it as a tinted lithograph for Edwin Clark's account of the bridge, where it appears as plate IV. The print is a useful record of a major engineering project at the moment its masonry was nearing completion.
| Created / published | London : Published for the author, 1849. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, tinted. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1840-1850.Lithographs Color 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Illus. in: The Britannia and Conway tubular bridges / by Edwin Clark. London : published for the author, by John Weale, 1850, pl. [IV]. |
| Subjects | Bridge construction--Great Britain--1840-1850. Bridges--Wales--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,134 × 1,449 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216488 |
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