Tombleson & Co Circa 1840 Hand Coloured Steel Engraved Print Vauxhall Bridge over Thames

ON AUCTION IS A UNIQUELY HAND COLOURED STEEL ENGRAVED PRINT OF THE VAUXHALL BRIDGE OVER THE THAMES. DRAWN BY WILLIAM TOMBLESON AND PUBLISHED BY TOMBLESON  CO. CIRCA 1840. WITH A SAILBOAT ON THE THAMES, FISHERMEN WITH THEIR NET WORKING ON THEIR BOAT AND PEOPLE  TAIKING THEIR DOG AND BABY FOR A WALK ON THE LEFT BANK.
 
IN GOOD CONDITION WITH GOOD COLOURS AND CLEAR ENGRAVING BUT WITH SOME FOXING BROWN SPOTS AROUND.  THE ARTIST WAS WILLIAM TOMBLESON. IT WAS ENGRAVED OR SCULPTURED BY H WINKLES. IT WAS PUBLISHED BY TOMBLESON & CO. IN EIGHTY PICTURESQUE VIEWS OF THE THAMES AND MEDWAY.
 
At 215 miles (346km) long, the River Thames is the second longest river in the UK (after the river Severn) it even has 45 different locks and over 180 islands, including large, lush marshlands and tiny islets!
 
Vauxhall Bridge is a steel and granite deck arch bridge in central London. It crosses the River Thames in a southeastnorthwest direction between Vauxhall on the south bank and Pimlico on the north bank. Initially called Walkers Bridge after the engineer it was the first cast-iron crossing over the Thames completed in 1816. The final design consisted of nine equal arches.The length of the crossing was 245m, with a carriageway of 7.5m and two footpaths. Shortly after its opening it was renamed Vauxhall Bridge due to its proximity to the famous pleasure gardens, and the road leading to it Vauxhall Bridge Road.
 
MARKINGS: HAND COLOURED STEEL PLATE ENGRAVING CIRCA 1840
THIS PRINT IS GUARANTEED TO BE MORE THAN A 100 YEARS OLD
 
SIZE: LINE ENGRAVING 19.5CM WIDE 16.5CM HIGH
BACKBOARD 33CM WIDE 29.5CM HIGH

CONDITION: ARTWORK STILL CLEAR WITH HAND COLOURING STILL BEAUTIFUL. HAND COLOURED LINE ENGRAVING WAS MOUNTED OR PASTED ONTO A HARDBOARD WITH PLASTIC COVERING. SMALL TEAR TO PLASTIC COVERING. ALTHOUGH THE ENGRAVING ITSELF IS CLEAR THERE ARE SOME FOXING (BROWN SPOTS) VISIBLE AROUND.
 
FOXING: Foxing is a generic term used to describe a range of deterioration mechanisms in paper and photographic documents  the thing they have in common is that they all tend to appear as small brown spots.
The causes of foxing are not well understood. One theory is that foxing is caused by a fungal  growth on the paper. Another theory is that foxing is caused by the effect on certain papers of the oxidation of iron, copper  or other substances in the pulp from which the paper was made. It is possible that multiple factors are involved. High humidity may contribute to foxing.
Luckily foxing appears to spread dimensionally through the paper sheets, not over it. So it does not tend to spread all over the page. It is possible to treat the foxing by washing and chemically treating the pages.
 
WILLIAM TOMBLESON (1795-1845):
William Tombleson was an English topographical and architecture artist, illustrator, copper and steel engraver, writer and printmaker, and publisher based in London. 
In the 1830s, his topographical drawings of the upper and middle River Rhine in Germany and of the rivers Thames and Medway in England were published as engraved prints and in books.
Engravers who worked on Tombleson's drawings included Thomas Clark, John Cleghorn, T. Cox, R. Harris, W. Hood, J. Howe, W. Lacey, O. Smith, Shenfield, J. Stokes, D. Thompson, W. Watts, R. Wilson, H Winkles and others.
 
ENGRAVER HENRY WINKLES (1801-1860):
Henry Winkles an English architectural illustrator, engraver and printer, who, together with Karl Ludwig Frommel founded the first studio for steel engraving in Germany.
 
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