print
- Museum number
- 1912,0319.91
- Title
- Object: A Plan & View of a Chain Bridge, erecting over the Menal at Bangor Ferry, 1820
- Description
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A suspension bridge; view from one end showing the railed foot-road with carriage-ways either side, centre, side and preventive chain fanning out from the end support, looking across the river to fields and houses with Gorphwysfa marked to left, Snowden and the road to Carnarvon to right and sailing ships on the water; an elevation below, showing a ship passing below, carriages on the bridge, the level of high and low water, with the Carnarvonshire side to left, Anglesey to right; with a scale and plan below. 1820
Etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1820
- Dimensions
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Height: 268 millimetres
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Width: 368 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A version of this view may have been used later in an octavo publication described by Abbey: 'Description of the Iron bridges of Suspension now erecting over the Strait of Menai, at Bangor, and over the River Conway, in North Wales; with Two Views; also some account of the different bridges of suspension in England and Scotland; particularly of Captain S. Brown's Iron Bar Bridge over the River Tweed with Remarks on the proposed Suspension Bridge over the Merby, at Runcorn Gap; and some calculations of the strength of malleable iron, founded on experiments. / By T.G. Cumming, Surveyor. / London: Printed for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, 59, High Holborn. 1824.'
According to Abbey, this contains 55 pages of text and two views: 'New Suspension Bridge over the Menaï, at Bangor Ferry' and 'View of the New Bridge at Conway, with the castle and surrounding scenery'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1912
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1912,0319.91