Tait (Arthur Fitzwilliam)

helping the new railway line cut a corner as it wound along Calderdale at the market town of Elland, roughly midway between Sowerby Bridge and Brighouse, due south of Halifax, with large lettering in the sky, this view also serves as the title plate 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, 315 x 245 mm. (12 3/8 x 9 5/8 in), a dampstain affecting the very top of the image into the margin, [Abbey Life 411],