![[Edmund Beckett-Denison] Edmund Denison, Esq. Chairman of the Great Northern Railway.](jpegs/68200.jpg)
[Edmund Beckett-Denison] Edmund Denison, Esq. Chairman of the Great Northern Railway.
Painted by H.W. Pickersgill, Esq.re R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
Published April 4.th 1848 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & C.º 13 & 14 Pall Mall East, Publishers to Her Majesty.
Mezzotint. Sheet 505 x 380mm (20 x 15"). Trimmed to plate, repaired tear through title, creasing.
A three quarter portrait of Edmund Beckett-Denison (1787-1874), Chairman of the Great Northern Railway, with a copy of the Act of Parliament approving the railway. Because of opposition, the cost of getting the bill passed by Parliament was £600,000, the most expensive in British railway history
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68200] £260.00
Published April 4.th 1848 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & C.º 13 & 14 Pall Mall East, Publishers to Her Majesty.
Mezzotint. Sheet 505 x 380mm (20 x 15"). Trimmed to plate, repaired tear through title, creasing.
A three quarter portrait of Edmund Beckett-Denison (1787-1874), Chairman of the Great Northern Railway, with a copy of the Act of Parliament approving the railway. Because of opposition, the cost of getting the bill passed by Parliament was £600,000, the most expensive in British railway history
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68200] £260.00