Tait (Arthur Fitzwilliam)

an extensive and dramatic landscape, reducing the subject railway line to a distant trace, though a locomotive and carriages can be seen approaching another of George Stephenson’s characteristic steel and Gothic towered bridges, similar to the one depicted at Gawksholme (Gauxholme), 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,

hand-coloured lithograph, printed by Day & Son, 245 x 320 mm. (9 5/8 x 12 5/8 in), a marginal dampstain, some slight surface bloom, [Abbey Life 411],