John Cooke Bourne (1814--1896) is among the foremost artists of the great industrial period. In the space of just under 10 years, he documented the construction of the railways, and with it, the transformation of the British landscape. From the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s, Bourne's work focused primarily on the building of two major railways: the London and Birmingham and the Great Western. Bourne brought a skilled technical eye to his work, taking...
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