Sujet

The Thames Tunnel under construction, London, c1835. Artist: Carl Friedrich Trautmann

Légende

The Thames Tunnel under construction, London, c1835. Cross section showing the Thames Tunnel, connecting Wapping and Rotherhithe, being built; with a view of its position beneath the River Thames. In the background boats can be seen on the river. Beneath the main view there are three smaller images associated with the tunnel. The Thames Tunnel, connecting Wapping and Rotherhithe, was the first underwater tunnel in the world. Completed as a foot tunnel in 1843, it was converted to a railway tunnel for the East London Railway in the 1860s. Sir Marc Isambard Brunel designed the tunnel, and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was site engineer.

Date

1835

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/City of London : The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM19B01_440

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

30,3Mo (1,1Mo) / 29,5cm x 25,7cm / 3487 x 3038 (300dpi)

Mots clés

river water building buildings London England River Thames Thames worker country British geography tunnel English color colour innovation location century Britain concept civil engineering riverbank B&W shaft river bed cross-section MONOCHROME under construction metaphor Tunneling Construction Industry 19th century black & white black and white B W Southwark nineteenth century Tower Hamlets workers Guildhall Library & Art Gallery Bermondsey geographical feature Rotherhithe TGN Thames Tunnel tunneling shield Wapping work in progress lithograph Isambard Kingdom Brunel Brunel Isambard Kingdom Sir Marc Isambard Brunel Sir Marc Isambard Marc Isambard Brunel Marc Isambard Carl Friedrich Trautmann Bontsch;Bontsch Trautmann Carl Friedrich