Sedley's Patent Iron Bridge.

Method Lithograph
Artist after Angelo Sedley
Published Johnson, Printer, 3 and 10, Castle St. Holborn, London. [c.1862]
Dimensions Image 270 x 425 mm, Sheet 305 x 452 mm
Notes Inscription beneath image reads: This sketch gives an illustration of the effect of such a bridge across the Thames at Hungerford Market, with a single span of 1100 feet, at a height of 40 feet from the low water.

Two columns of text on verso by Angelo Sedley, describing the bridge: Sedley's Patent Iron Bridge, / For Crossing Rivers and Valleys at One Span, At Any Height or Any Width, Up to 1500 Feet, Without / the Aid of Intermediate Piers, Or Support of Any Kind. [...] The MODEL can be inspected at 210, Regent Street, W., London, between the hours of 10 a.m., and 6 p.m, / on presenting card and address. / Angelo Sedley, (Inventor and Patentee.)

Angelo James Sedley was a London-based engineer active in the mid to late nineteeth-century.

Condition: Some creasing to edges of sheet. Small marks to image and lower inscription space.
Framing unmounted
Price £130.00
Stock ID 33836

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