- Title:
General Arrangement Drawing made at Swindon of Narrow Gauge Outside Cylinder Tank Engine for Metropolitan Railway
- Additional Title(s):
Technical Drawing for Narrow Gauge Tank Engine
- Date:
- 1863
- Medium:
- Watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted to canvas
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 28 × 51 inches (71.1 × 129.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Extensively inscribed with notations and component measurements; inscribed in pen and red ink, center: "Note | No Pumps or Feedcocks were put on | as Injectors were used instead"; inscribed on verso in blue crayon, center right: "R9"
Lettered in pen and black ink, upper left: "GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY Co. | NARROW GAUGE TANK ENGINES | For METROPOLITAN RY. | Scale 1 ½ - 1 Foot"; lower right: "R | 37" lower right: "470"
Signed and dated in pen and black ink, upper left: "Swindon 1863 E.B.C."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1993.30.44
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- View by request in the Study Room [Request]
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