print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.6028
- Title
- Object: Conference of Engineers at the Menai Straits Preparatory to Floating one of the Tubes of the Britannia Bridge
- Description
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Men gathered around a table discussing large plans spread over it, one standing on the left gesturing and talking to Robert Stephenson, who sits at the table, while a third takes notes; one man with a tartan shawl on the left, another wearing a workman's clothes and soft hat, yet another kneeling in the left foreground with one hand on a large rope coiled on the ground; a folio and flags by a stool in the foreground and a view of the Britannia tubular bridge in the background; after Lucas; sitter's proof. 1858
Mixed method on chine collé
- Production date
- 1858
- Dimensions
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Height: 670 millimetres
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Width: 825 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.6028
