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Spirit of the Southern

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1969, about

Picture painted by psychiatric patient, Suffolk, England, 1930-1985

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1934 -1990

Going North, King's Cross Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1893

Oil painting, portrait of Richard Johnson, of Richard Johnson and Nephew

Moon by James Nasmyth

James Hall Nasmyth

1849

Painting, oil on canvas, 'Perth Station, Coming South' by George Earl, 1895. Depicts a busy platform with passengers preparing to board a train for London at the close of the shooting season. The scene is set in about 1885, before the station was enlarged. There are crowds of passengers with hunting dogs, including pointers and setters, and among the luggage are grouse, blackcock and stags' antlers. Station porters carry luggage, a boy sells The Scotsman newspaper and passengers bid farewell to their friends and families. There are signs for the Highland and Caledonian Railways, waiting rooms and notices forbidding smoking. Signed and dated by the artist at bottom right. Framed and glazed.

Perth Station, Coming South

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1895

Painting of Sunspot by James Nasmyth, 1860

Josiah Crampton

1860

Painting, oil on canvas, Letchworth Station, Hertfordshire by Spencer Frederick Gore, 1912. Painting in the Post-Impressionist style depicting Letchworth station, Hertfordshire, with passengers waiting on the platforms. There are station buildings and waiting rooms with red tiled roofs, and a house with a red roof in the distance. There are fields beyond the station. Framed and glazed in acrylic.

Letchworth Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1912

Buccaneer aircraft RN Jet XT283 (809 Squadron) landing on the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal

Michael Turner

1972

Moon: Copernicus and crater

James Hall Nasmyth

1851

Moon: Gassendi and crater

James Hall Nasmyth

1851

The accident to the Irish Mail Train

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1868

'Cell Structure', painting of an idealised animal cell, 1986.

Cynthia Clarke

1986

Blitz on an London Midland & Scottish Railway Marshalling Yard near Willesden, September 1940

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

about 1945

Maltese Galleys painting

.Unattributed

1650-1760

Painting, oil on canvas, portrait of Robert Stephenson (1803-1859), Mechanical and Civil Engineer, 1850s, painting shows the Britannia Bridge in the background. Unknown artist, after or by John Lucas . Framed and glazed.

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

c.1850s

Moon: Craters, South East Tycho

James Hall Nasmyth

1851

Painting, oil on panel, First Class: The Meeting... and at First Meeting Loved, by Abraham Solomon, 1855. Depicts passengers in a first class railway carriage. A young man in naval uniform leans forward to talk to an elderly gentleman and a young woman, who listen attentively. The gentleman, balding with grey side whiskers, holds a newspaper in his left hand, and is wearing a glove on his right. The woman is wearing a bonnet and hooded shawl, and is sewing. On the seats are blankets, gloves, a parasol and a bunch of red roses. Through the carriage window is a valley with hills and trees. Signed by the artist at bottom right. Framed and glazed. Also known as The Return (First Class).

First Class: The Meeting... and at First Meeting Loved

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1855

grand junction railway 2-2-2 locomotive tamerlane

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

York Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1913

Moon: West of Tycho

James Hall Nasmyth

1851

Moon: Aristarchus

James Hall Nasmyth

1851

Painting, oil on canvas, 'Through the Marshes', by Stanhope Alexander Forbes, 1927. Depicts railway workers (permanent way) and a train crossing the Marazion Marshes near Penzance on the Great Western Railway main line. Framed and glazed, glass.

Through the Marshes

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1927

Special Boat Express nearing Orpington

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

Painting, oil on canvas, The London Road Viaduct on the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Line, by J W Carmichael, 1848. Depicts the brick railway viaduct curving across the valley of the River Wellesbourne. A train hauled by a steam locomotive is crossing the viaduct, leaving a plume of white smoke. In the foreground are cut down trees, and two women talking beside a stone wall. There is a drover with cattle on the road in the valley beneath the viaduct, and on the hills at either side and in the distance there are three windmills. The town of Brighton is visible in the distance, between the arches of the bridge. Signed by the artist at bottom right. Framed and glazed.

The London Road Viaduct on the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Line

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1848

Painting, oil on canvas, Victoria Bridge over the River Wear by John Wilson Carmichael, 1838. Depicts the Victoria Viaduct on the Durham Junction Railway, seen from the banks of the River Wear. In the foreground men and women work and talk at the riverside, while a train crosses the viaduct, leaving a trail of white smoke. Caption on the frame reads "Victoria Bridge over the River Wear. Built by John Gibb & Son of Aberdeen for the Durham Junction Railway and completed on 28th June 1838, the day of Queen Victoria's coronation, by John Wilson Carmichael". Framed and glazed, glass.

Victoria Bridge over the River Wear

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1838

Painting, oil on panel, Second Class: The Parting 'Thus part we rich in sorrow, Parting poor', by Abraham Solomon, 1855. Depicts passengers in a second class railway carriage. A woman, dressed in black widow’s clothes with a hood and bonnet covering her hair, is seated with her left arm around a boy sailor, clasping his right hand in hers. Facing them is a tearful young woman, holding a handkerchief to her face. There is a carpet bag and bundle of luggage on the seats alongside. Seated behind them are a bearded sailor, wearing an earring and straw hat, and a woman with a colourful bonnet. On the wall of the carriage are advertisements for sea passages to Australia, gold digging equipment and emigrants’ outfits. Through the carriage window is a port with ships’ masts. Framed and glazed. Also known as The Departure (Second Class).

Second Class: The Parting 'Thus part we rich in sorrow, Parting poor'

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1855

The Wye Valley

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1955

Science Museum Wroughton

Art

1991

Astronomy

Louis Charles Duffy

1953

How small can we go

David Richard Newton

1993

Painting, oil on canvas, artist unknown, with the caption "Seats for Five Persons", about 1850. Satirical depiction of a crowded compartment of a railway carriage, showing twelve passengers, including a stout woman, an elderly man, an amorous couple and a family with a crying baby. Framed and glazed.

seats for five persons

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

c. 1850

Painted acrylic panel, one of three, from the mural 'How small can we go'

David Richard Newton

1993

painting in gouache, 'New Zealand' [animal and hum

Durban, S. M.

1967

Nanotechnology

David Richard Newton

1993

2-6-4T locomotive 'Alice'

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1945-1987

RNAS Capel Looking East

Norman Wilkinson

1918

Painting, oil on canvas, Cannon Street Station, by Algernon Talmage, depicting interior platform scene, 1908. Framed and glazed.

Cannon Street Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1908

Painting, oil on canvas, portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859), by John Callcott Horsley, 1848. Depicts Brunel full length, standing, dressed in grey trousers, a frock coat, white shirt and black cravat. His left hand rests on a set of plans, on a table covered with a red cloth. Brunel was married to the artist's sister, Mary Elizabeth Horsely.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1848

A 4pp letterpress with woodcut, proposed plan for

Shillibeer, G.

1835

Bargain Alley Wroughton

Art

1991

Painting of Lady Winding a Weight-Driven Clock, 1700-1751

Art

1700-1751

Painting, oil on canvas, Liverpool Street Station, by Marjorie Sherlock, about 1963. Depicts a scene at the ticket barrier on platform 4 at Liverpool Street Station in about 1917. In the foreground are passengers, including a soldier in an Australian Army slouch hat. At left is part of a newsagent's kiosk and railway staff are inspecting tickets at the barriers. Beyond, below a sign announcing "West Side Suburban" trains are two trains, with a blue painted Great Eastern Railway locomotive at the end of platform 4. The scene is framed by the station roof. Framed and glazed (perspex). Signed by the artist at bottom left, "Marjorie Sherlock 63".

Liverpool Street Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1963

Painted acrylic panel, one of three, from the mural 'How small can we go'

David Richard Newton

1993

Painting, oil on canvas, 'Farewell to the Light Brigade', by Robert Collinson, about 1870. Depicts a cavalry soldier in the uniform of a hussar regiment leaning from a railway carriage window taking leave of a well-dressed woman on the platform during the Crimean War. The woman, on the verge of tears, is clasping his hand in hers. Behind her a bearded guard holding a green flag raises his left hand to signal that the train is ready to depart. Just visible behind the guard, seated in the carriage, is another hussar reading a newspaper. At bottom left is a pile of luggage. Signed in red at bottom right "Robert Collinson, 1862 (?) & 187(?) " The dates are obscured by the frame. The frame is arched at the top. On the reverse is a label reading "Exhibition Folkestone, 1967, Exhibit No 28 from Museum of British Transport, London, Museum No 1052/52". Written in ink on the stretcher are "£200" and "1052/56 or 75/22/6".

Farewell to the Light Brigade

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1870

Painted acrylic panel, one of three, from the mural 'How small can we go'

David Richard Newton

1993

Painting, oil on canvas, The Terminus (Penzance Station) by Stanhope Alexander Forbes, 1925. Painting shows a busy station platform from a high view point. This includes carriages, passengers and posters. The sea wall, houses and fields can be seen beyond the platform. Framed and glazed.

The Terminus (Penzance Station)

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1925

Tin mine at Carclaise

Art

c. 1800

Painting. Submarine sounding: Dover Patrol 1917

Norman Wilkinson

1917

View of a gasworks at sunset

Samuel Bough

1850