Building a Cross Channel Train Ferry
Sir Muirhead Bone; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd.
Description
Subject Matter:
This print is derived from plate one in a set of six lithographs depicting the process of shipbuilding and associated transportation feats. The series was published by P & D Colnaghi & Obach. The scenes, which vary from birds-eye views to more claustrophobic up-close encounters, like this one, in which workers labor on a cross channel train ferry, were recorded by Bone as he observed such work along the River Clyde in Glasgow.
Physical Description:
Large, wooden, vertical and horizontal beams frame the left side of this lithograph. They are supporting the sloping, shadowy underside of a large boat's hull, on which many men are performing maintenance and repairs.
Signed verso l.r., with scratch lettering, on stone, "Muirhead Bone"
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