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Locomotive Engine, "The Rocket", 1830

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Date:

1830

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Box number: 2000861458

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2921067

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Arthur Hill Autograph Collection

Locomotive Engine, "The Rocket", 1830
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Date(s):

1830

Place:

50 Leadenhall St.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Place of printing:

50 Leadenhall St.

Extent:

1 print / estampe : hand coloured process print
Support 27.500 x 32.500 cm

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an image of a locomotive engine which is being admired by a group of citzenry with a horse-drawn carriage in the background, the work is badly stained and in need of conservation treatment
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Artist: George, Stephenson active mid and late 19th century

Publisher: Leadenhall Press

Printer: Leadenhall Press
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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: recto, below image: LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE, "THE ROCKET", 1830 / BUILT BY GEORGE STEPHENSON; across bottom: London, Published July 16, 1894 by the Leadenhall Press Ltd., 50 Leadenhall Street, E.C. Copyright Registered / Entered according to Act of Congress in the Office of the Librarian at Washington, U. S. A., in the year 1894 by the Leadenhall Press Ltd., London
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Transportation

transport

SUBJ. - Transportation : Locomotive Engine - The Rocket
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Private

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00004
1973-006 X PIC
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [1973-006]

[Consultation 90 Open]

2000861458 Item no. assigned by LAC 4

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1973-6-4 From the Arthur J. Hill Collection, Manuscript Division, N.A.C.
Copyright: [copyright registered July 16, 1894]

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