Thames Tunnel Textile
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Object number2014.04189
TitleThames Tunnel Textile
DescriptionTextile, framed and glazed with back board. This is a textile, speculatively considered as a handkerchief (it seems preposterously large to be a handkerchief, possibly a large tea towel?) in a note on the backboard, depicting the Thames Tunnel and a small portrait of its designer, I. Brunel. The background is red and confined to the borders of the textile and the print of the tunnel and Brunel is in clack and white, ocuupying the majority of the image. In each of the corners of the print are a single entrance/exit house, presumably for pedestrians to access the tunnel. Flanking the main image of the tunnel itself are two brief descriptions containing details of the tunnel's construction and purpose. The shot of the tunnel shows a view from the outside looking down the tunnel as well-dressed pedestrians bustle around the entrance and begin to make their way down the tunnel itself.
Object nametextile
Object categoryvisual art
Techniqueprinting
Dimensions
- overall height: 820 mm
overall width: 960 mm
painting only height: 780 mm
painting only width: 910 mm
Credit line“Accepted under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government from Clive Richards OBE DL and allocated to the ss Great Britain Trust, 2017”