Conference of Engineers at the Menai Straits Preparatory to Floating one of the Tubes of the Britannia Bridge - Robert Stephenson (after John Lucas)
James Scott (London c.1809 – London c.1889)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
770 mm (H)900 mm (W)
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Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd
NT 1420624
Summary
Print, engraving, Conference of Engineers at the Menai Straits Preparatory to Floating one of the Tubes of the Britannia Bridge - Robert Stephenson (after John Lucas) by James Scott (London c.1809 – London c.1889). Group of men at table in foreground before bridge in distance.Men gathered around a table discussing large plans spread over it, one standing on the left gesturing and talking to Robert Stephenson, who sits at the table, while a third takes notes; one man with a tartan shawl on the left, another wearing a workman's clothes and soft hat, yet another kneeling in the left foreground with one hand on a large rope coiled on the ground; a folio and flags by a stool in the foreground and a view of the Britannia tubular bridge in the background
Makers and roles
James Scott (London c.1809 – London c.1889), engraver after John Lucas (London 1807 – St John’s Wood 1874), artist