Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, mezzotint portrait, 1858, by H. Cousins after J. C. Horsley, portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel seated at his desk holding a pen, three quarters facing, rev. PUBLISHED BY HENRY GRAVES & COMPY MARCH 15TH 1858, PRINTSELLERS TO THE QUEEN. 6 PALL MALL, 1858. 580 x 650 mm, contained in original frame, missing some veneer. Some minor restoration, otherwise good very fine. £450.00
After the oil by Horsley, 1857, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Brunel is the most celebrated civil engineer of the nineteenth century. The son of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, he earned early experience working on his father's Thames Tunnel. He went on to design pioneering docks, suspension bridges, and the Great Western Railway. His greatest fame came as the designer of three giant steamships that transformed ocean travel - the Great Western (1838), the Great Britain (1845), and the Great Eastern (1858).
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