Tait (Arthur Fitzwilliam)

opened in late 1840 as part of the second phase of second phase of building line from Manchester, this stretch running from Hebden Bridge to Normanton, the first station buildings, depicted here, were replaced in 1893 alongside the development of a larger goods yard, 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, 240 x 330 mm. (9 1/2 x 13 in), some marginal staining, with a small loss in the upper right sheet corner, well away from the image, [Abbey Life 411],