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Etching and Aquatint with original hand colouring
B. Hilscher after Georg Emmanuel Opiz
Par son tiés humble serviteur Louis de Kleist in Dresde
1841
Image 462 x 660 mm, Plate 568 x 722 mm
framed
Opiz’ work depicts the Queen and her consort as they review
the British military. In the background, a panorama
of London can be seen. The towers of Greenwich appear
in the middle distance. Beyond the Thames, the cupola of
St. Paul’s Cathedral looms over the central district of the
city.
Condition: Original hand colour. A single speck of
dirt appears above the Thames, but below the clouds.
[30186]
£2,000
Railway Prints
74. Entrance of the Great Western Railway into
Bristol.
Lithograph with hand colouring
W.W.Young
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King, Gate St.Published by
John Wright, Bridge St. Bristol c.1835
Image 188 x 274 mm, Sheet 230 x 306 mm
unmounted
Proof impression on India laid paper.
A scarce railway lithograph with two trains coming over
the river Avon into the city of Bristol.
One of three plates from Illustrations of the Great Western
& Bristol & Exeter Railways, prepared from actual
survey by W. W. Young, engineer.
Abbey, Life. 412
[30101]
£85
73. Bristol and Exeter railway with Train of Carriages
approaching Bristol. with Clifton in the distance.
Lithograph with hand colouring
W.W.Young
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King. c.1835
Image 185 x 274 mm, Sheet 210 x 288 mm
unmounted
Proof impression on India laid paper.
Religion
A rare early railway lithograph featuring a row of carriages
and two out-bound horse carriage carriages in tow,
with the Clifton suspension bridge anticipated by the artist
in the background.
One of three plates from Illustrations of the Great Western
& Bristol & Exeter Railways, prepared from actual
survey by W. W. Young, engineer.
Abbey, Life. 412
[30100]
£85