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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