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Design by Thomas Telford for a cast iron bridge to replace London Bridge. Viewed over...

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Design by Thomas Telford for a cast iron bridge to replace London Bridge. Viewed over the River Thames; ships passing beneath, carriages and carts using the bridge roadway; arcaded embankment approaches. This design was not used due to concerns about its technical feasibility and the space required to construct it.
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To the Right Honourable Lord Hawksbury, Principal Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, and Chairman of the Select Committee for Improving the Port of London, This PERSPECTIVE VIEW of the DESIGN for A CAST IRON BRIDGE, consisting of a SINGLE ARCH 600 FEET in the SPAN, and calculated to supply the place of the present LONDON BRIDGE, Is, by Permission, most respectfully Inscribed by his most obedient servants, Thomas Telford & James Douglas. / Drawn & Aquatinted by Thos Malton; The Bridge engraved by Willm Lowry Author: Malton, Thomas / Illustrator: Malton, Thomas Published for the Proprietors and sold by Mr. R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand, Mr Taylor, Architectural Library, Holborn, London & all the Principal Printers & Booksellers in Great Britain, 5th Oct. 1801. Source/Shelfmark: Maps 3540.(14)

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Great Britain / Europe / river / rivers / colours / england / western europe / 19th century / britain / river thames / london / british isles / colour / europe / aquatint / thames / albion
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