built by George Stephenson in his typical style of dressing state of the art steel bridge engineering in castellated Gothic architecture, spanning the Rochdale Canal at Gauxholme near Todmorden, 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, 240 x 325 mm. (9 1/2 x 12 3/4 in), some marginal spotting and an exposure line, [Abbey Life 411],