First Days of Steam
- maker:
- Terence Tenison Cuneo
Painting, oil on canvas, The First Days of Steam, by Terence Cuneo, 1954. Depicts an imaginary scene featuring Richard Trevithick's 1804 "Pen-y-Darren" locomotive with 2-2-2 locomotive "Cornwall", designed by his son Francis Trevithick and built for the London and North Western Railway in 1847, passing overhead on a bridge. Framed and glazed (perspex).
Details
- Category:
- Pictorial Collection (Railway)
- Object Number:
- 1973-334
- Measurements:
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overall; frame: 772 mm x 900 mm x 37 mm,
overall; image: 623 mm x 752 mm
- type:
- painting and oil painting
- credit:
- Trevithick, R E
