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![[The Union Canal] No 2. View in Callendar Park, Situate in the County of Sterling, the Seat of William Forbes, Esq.r.](jpegs/56692.jpg)
[The Union Canal] No 2. View in Callendar Park, Situate in the County of Sterling, the Seat of William Forbes, Esq.r. Taken from the same point as No. 1 shewing part of the Track of the injurious deviation from the Parliamentary Line of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal, as proposed by the Canal Company.
Drawn by Alex.r Nasmyth. Engraved by F.C. Lewis, Engraver to H.R.H. the late Princess Charlotte & H.S.H. the Prince Leopold.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Rare coloured aquatint. 350 x 730mm (13¾ x 28¾") very large margins. Laid on board.
A view of Callendar House in Falkirk, with an artist's impression of how the Union Canal was going to affect the aesthetics of the estate. The Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal was a contour canal (running at the same level, with viaducts to cross valleys, so avoiding the use of locks), and the original plan had it running around a hill overlooking the house. The owner, William Forbes, a merchant who specialised in Royal Navy contracts, made an objection, forcing the company to built a 696-yard tunnel through Prospect Hill to the west.
[Ref: 56692] £320.00
Drawn by Alex.r Nasmyth. Engraved by F.C. Lewis, Engraver to H.R.H. the late Princess Charlotte & H.S.H. the Prince Leopold.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Rare coloured aquatint. 350 x 730mm (13¾ x 28¾") very large margins. Laid on board.
A view of Callendar House in Falkirk, with an artist's impression of how the Union Canal was going to affect the aesthetics of the estate. The Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal was a contour canal (running at the same level, with viaducts to cross valleys, so avoiding the use of locks), and the original plan had it running around a hill overlooking the house. The owner, William Forbes, a merchant who specialised in Royal Navy contracts, made an objection, forcing the company to built a 696-yard tunnel through Prospect Hill to the west.
[Ref: 56692] £320.00
Viaduct Across the River Tay at Cargill. (Scottish Midland Junction Railway.) J. Locke and J.E. Errington Engineers. _ John Stephenson & Co.y, Contractors. Span of each arch 100 Feet _ Height above bed of River _ 60 Feet. 1847.
Sketched by Alex. Cumming. Allan & Ferguson lith. Glasgow.
Scarce tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 350 x 605mm (13¾ x 23¾"). Repaired tears in edges bottom left & right; some paper cracking.
A five-arched railway bridge with a locomotive crossing, in Perthshire. The viaduct is still standing although the arches have been replaced and has been closed to all traffic since 1982.
[Ref: 57019] £420.00
Sketched by Alex. Cumming. Allan & Ferguson lith. Glasgow.
Scarce tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 350 x 605mm (13¾ x 23¾"). Repaired tears in edges bottom left & right; some paper cracking.
A five-arched railway bridge with a locomotive crossing, in Perthshire. The viaduct is still standing although the arches have been replaced and has been closed to all traffic since 1982.
[Ref: 57019] £420.00
Kelso.
H. McCulloch R.S.A. W. Forrest
Published by Fraser & Co. 97 George St. Edin.r [n.d., 1849].
Scarce steel engraving. 425 x 570mm (16¾ x 22½"), with very large margins Margins toned and creased.
A view of Kelso from across the Tweed, with the bridge built by John Rennie, the ruins of Kelso Abbey and, in the left background, Floors Castle. It was painted by the celebrated scottish artist Horatio McCulloch, RSA (1805-1867).
[Ref: 56687] £460.00
H. McCulloch R.S.A. W. Forrest
Published by Fraser & Co. 97 George St. Edin.r [n.d., 1849].
Scarce steel engraving. 425 x 570mm (16¾ x 22½"), with very large margins Margins toned and creased.
A view of Kelso from across the Tweed, with the bridge built by John Rennie, the ruins of Kelso Abbey and, in the left background, Floors Castle. It was painted by the celebrated scottish artist Horatio McCulloch, RSA (1805-1867).
[Ref: 56687] £460.00
View of the New Bridge over the River Tweed at Kelso, Scotland. Inscribed to John Rennie Esq.r Civil Engineer & F.R. A.S.S. &c. &c. by his obliged and obedient servant, William Daniell.
Painted, Engraved & Published by W.m Daniell No 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, July 25 1804.
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 460 x 665mm (18 x 26½"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, laid on archival paper.
In 1797 the old bridge over the Tweed was washed away by floods, and the Scottish engineer John Rennie (1761-1821) was called in to build this bridge. He used the new technique of combining cast iron with stone to create wide arches previously unheard of in bridge construction. The Kelso Bridge was so impressive that he won contracts to build three major London bridges, Waterloo (a larger version of this bridge), Southwark & London Bridge (completed from his design after his death). In 1854 the Kelso population had to be read the Riot Act when they protested against the bridge tolls, fifty years after completion, and long after the construction had been paid for. Three years later the tolls were abolished. This plate attests to the skill of Daniell as an aquatinter: whereas most aquatints have lines added by engraving or etching, this image is pure aquatint, even the boatman's pole and the black border.
[Ref: 56952] £490.00
Painted, Engraved & Published by W.m Daniell No 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, July 25 1804.
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 460 x 665mm (18 x 26½"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, laid on archival paper.
In 1797 the old bridge over the Tweed was washed away by floods, and the Scottish engineer John Rennie (1761-1821) was called in to build this bridge. He used the new technique of combining cast iron with stone to create wide arches previously unheard of in bridge construction. The Kelso Bridge was so impressive that he won contracts to build three major London bridges, Waterloo (a larger version of this bridge), Southwark & London Bridge (completed from his design after his death). In 1854 the Kelso population had to be read the Riot Act when they protested against the bridge tolls, fifty years after completion, and long after the construction had been paid for. Three years later the tolls were abolished. This plate attests to the skill of Daniell as an aquatinter: whereas most aquatints have lines added by engraving or etching, this image is pure aquatint, even the boatman's pole and the black border.
[Ref: 56952] £490.00