Aquatinted illustration - Excavation of Olive Mount, 4 Miles from Liverpool
- Made:
- 1831
- part of archive:
- Collection of engravings, photographs and prints relating to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
- maker:
- Pyall, Henry and Ackermann, Rudolph
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Plate 3 of a series of aquatints of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, titled 'Excavation of Olive Mount, 4 Miles from Liverpool'. It was engraved by Henry Pyall, after an image by Thomas Talbot Bury, and was published by R. Ackermann, London, 1831.
Slicing through solid rock, workers building the railway used pickaxes to cut through Olive Mount. At 3,219 metres long, 21 metres deep and six metres wide, the deep, narrow cutting dwarfed the people and trains that travelled through it.
Details
- Measurements:
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whole358.00mm (height)292.00mm (width)
- Identifier:
- YA1983.9/4/3
- Access:
- Open access.
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