Tait (Arthur Fitzwilliam)

part of the extension of the line from it’s original terminus at Oldham, with the purpose of connecting the Manchester and Leeds Railway with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, from Tait’s ‘Views on the Manchester and Leeds Railway, Drawn from Nature and on Stone by A.F. Tait’, (1819-1905), the Liverpool-born artist who trained with the print publishers, Agnew and Zanetti, in Manchester, applying his burgeoning interest in landscape and nature to depicting this series of beautiful scenes in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the later 1840s, before emigrating to America, in 1850, where he became very well known as a wildlife painter, was widely published by Currier & Ives, and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in New York,

original hand-coloured lithograph, printed by Day & Son, 270 x 355 mm. (10 5/8 x 14 in), [Abbey Life 411],