| Method | Lithograph with tint stone and hand colour |
| Artist | By and after John Cooke Bourne |
| Published | Published 1839 Ackerman & Co. and John Cooke Bourne |
| Dimensions | Image 227 x 343, Plate > 256 x 343 mm |
| Notes |
Plate 36 of Bourne's Drawings of the London & Birmingham Railway, London, Bourne et al., 1839 (Abbey Life 401). An evocative and allegorical view at Bradnocks Marsh on the road between Hampton-in-Arden and Braston-on-the-Hill near Solihull. On the right is the late mediaeval pack-horse bridge, abandoned with the coming of wheeled traffic and in the centre is the ford soon to be replaced by the railway seen on the left. In 1838, Francis Cohnlan commented in his The Iron Road Book and Railway Companion, "the contrast between old and new times is no where more evident between London and Birmingham." In December 1843, the two days of the Smithfield Show brought 1085 Oxen and 1420 sheep over this viaduct. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £300.00 |
| Stock ID | 7854 |