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Object Type
Museum number: 1936,0626.2
Title: Object: Highgate Tunnel
Description: Mail coach passing underneath Highgate Tunnel, a labourer working by the road on the left and two gentlemen walking on the right. c.1830-37 Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Producer name: Print made by: George Hunt; After: James Pollard; Published by: John Moore
School/style
Production date: 1830-1837 (c.)
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: aquatint; etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 445 millimetres; Width: 557 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The print must date between 1830-37, as the coach bears the Royal cipher "WR".
Bibliographic references: Siltzer 1929 / The story of British sporting prints (p.217); Selway 1957 / The Regency Road, the Coaching Prints of James Pollard (43)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1936
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1936,0626.2

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