Stereograph of five men standing at the base of one of the structural piers of the Crumlin Viaduct while under construction, Monmouthshire (now in Gwent County), Wales

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Thomas Kennard (engineer)

Title:

Stereograph of five men standing at the base of one of the structural piers of the Crumlin Viaduct while under construction, Monmouthshire (now in Gwent County), Wales

Date:

between 1853 and 1855

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 stereoscopic photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver stereograph

Dimensions:

comp. (each photograph; tops rounded): 7.4 x 6.6 cm (2 15/16 x 2 5/8 in.) secondary support: 8.4 x 17.3 cm (3 5/16 x 6 13/16 in.)

Reference number:

PH1985:0609

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

labelled and imprinted - in typescript, in black ink, on a paper label attached to the secondary support, verso, c.: "A Series of Views of the Great Crumlin Viaduct, / MONMOUTHSHIRE. / This viaduct is upwards of 200 feet in height, 1,760 in length, and 50 in breadth. This bridge is the most magnificent specimen of its style in Europe." [commercially printed label; with floral, rectangular border] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, l.l.: "C / SU"

Location:

Gwent County; Wales; United Kingdom;

Subject:

engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

men (male humans)
viaduct
earth
structures (structural elements)

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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