Box-Moor Embankment, 11 June 1837

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

John Cooke Bourne is best known for producing two series of lithographs on railway construction. The first was published as ‘Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway’ in 1839 and the second, ‘The History and Description of the Great Western Railway’, was published in 1846. The success of these works caused Bourne to be known as the ‘Piranesi of the Railway Age’. He also illustrated ‘Views in Kairo’ (1840) and ‘The History of Steam Navigation’ (1846) and made drawings of the road bridge spanning the Dnieper River in Kiev, Ukraine, for the engineer Charles Vignoles. From 1866 to 1877 he was unsuccessful three times in standing for election to the New Watercolour Society. He died in Brentford at the age of 81.

Places

England, Hertfordshire

Subjects

wheelbarrow, shovel/spade, railway, pick-axe, engineering, topography, townscape/cityscape, horse, stone/rock, working class

Materials & Techniques

lithograph

Artist

John Cooke Bourne (1814 - 1896)

Title

Box-Moor Embankment, 11 June 1837

Date

Medium

Coloured lithograph

Dimensions

height: 35.70 cm, width: 50.90 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Alan Bickley, July 2007

Provenance

W G Bagnall, Locomotive Engineers, Stafford; English Electric Company (later GEC); presented to vendor's father who was Personnel Manager, on closure of site; purchased from Alan Bickley, Stafford, July 2007

GAC number

18131