The Railway Station (1879-1914)

James Watterson Herald

coloured chalks on brown paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (CC BY-NC-ND) Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Chalk, Paper

Physical Object Description:

Railway station; train at left with crowd on platform rushing towards it, at right figures sitting in row, bridge beyond at left and staircase at right of it Coloured chalks, on brown paper. Inscribed and dated(?): "[J W ? faded text]. Herald 1[faded text]"

Dimensions:

26.9 x 30.7 cm

Accession Number:

1948,0710.10

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1948

Scheme:

S. E. Thornton Bequest (1938-1945)

Ownership history:

Bequeathed by S. E. Thornton (-1942) to the Contemporary Art Society; presented to Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1948

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London S. E. Thornton

Subject:

People, Railways

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