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Thames Tunnel

Unknown artist, 1830

This work was one of a group of works known as the ‘G.W.’s Transparencies of Thames Tunnel’. These were an alternative amusement to the peepshow and a simpler version of the Protean View or ‘transformation’, which were both popular in Victorian times. G.W.’s Transparencies show The Thames Tunnel with gas lamps in the side arches. The lamps have been pierced through and tissue paper pasted behind so that when the lithograph is held to the light the gas lamps appear to shine.

More information

Title of artwork, date

Thames Tunnel, 1830

Date supported

2008

Medium and material

Hand coloured lithograph

Dimensions

13.5 x 18.5 cm

Grant

250

Total cost

250

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