Rare-Antique Print-SS GREAT EASTERN-HULL-CONSTRUCTION-LONDON-Goehring-1855

Rare-Antique Print-SS GREAT EASTERN-HULL-CONSTRUCTION-LONDON-Goehring-1855

Print

€95.00

‘RIESENSCHIFF DER ENGLISCHEN OST-DAMPFSCHIFFAHRTS-GESELLSCHAFT.’

– Rare original antique print showing a view of the SS Great Eastern, at John Scott Russell’s shipyard in Millwall on the Isle of Dogs, London. The colossal hull of the Great Eastern looms over the surrounding Isle of Dogs landscape and local buildings during its controversial and prolonged assembly on the Thames.

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SKU: PICTURA-15212 Category: Tag:

Description

Medium: Pen lithograph with original old hand colouring on wove paper.

Sheet size: 24 x 16 cm (9.45 x 6.3 inch). Image size: 21.5 x 14.5 cm. (8.46 x 5.71 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Some browning, staining and light foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

SS GREAT EASTERN-HULL-CONSTRUCTION-LONDON | PCO-MISC-BOX-01

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From: ‘Weltereignisse. Encyclopädie der Gegenwart in Wort und Bild’ von C. Goehring, first ed. 1855. Erster unf zweiter Band (published in 1856). A rare publication.

Biography engraver: Lithographer unknown/to be determined.

Biography artist: Carl Goehring, also Karl Goehring or Carl Gohring (before 1843 – after 1869) was a German Author, publisherer and historian active in Leipzig.

Additional information

Dimensions 16 × 24 × 1 cm

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