- Title:
- The Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash
- Object name(s):
- painting; watercolour; poster artwork; painting; watercolour; poster artwork
- Brief description:
- Painting, watercolour on paper, The Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, by Anton van Anrooy, about 1935. Original artwork for a Great Western Railway poster. Depicts the view towards Saltash from the Devon side of the bridge, with a train hauled by a steam locomotive crossing from Cornwall. The locomotive is beneath the inscription on the portal reading "I.K. Brunel, Engineer, 1859". The Saltash ferry and a yacht are sailing on the River Tamar. Beyond, on a hillside, is the town of Saltash. Signed at bottom right. Text below reads "The Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash. Brunel's famous link between Glorious Devon and the Cornish Riviera". The GWR 'roundel' logo is at both bottom left and right. Framed and glazed. Label on the reverse records framing by the Alexander Gallery of Bristol, dated 25th September 1978.
- Collection:
- Science Museum Group
- Associated concept:
- watercolour
- Associated concept:
- watercolours
- Associated concept:
- Art
- Associated person:
- Great Western Railway
- Person's association:
- association
- Associated place:
- Royal Albert Bridge
- Place association:
- depicted
- Material:
- watercolour
- Object name:
- painting; watercolour; poster artwork; painting; watercolour; poster artwork
- Object production date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1930
- Date - latest:
- 1940
- Object production date:
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1935
- Date - latest:
- 1935
- Object production person:
- Anrooy, Anton Abraham van; Great Western Railway
- Object production place:
- England, United Kingdom
- Other number:
- 1978-1558
- Other number type:
- accession number
- Other number:
- 78/22/244
- Other number type:
- National Railway Museum number
- Responsible department/section:
- NRM - Pictorial Collection (Railway)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/6ed9bb47-8956-3ced-9374-3a37be332fb0
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/6ed9bb47-8956-3ced-9374-3a37be332fb0, Science Museum Group, CC BY
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