Printed Thames Tunnel Company Admission Ticket to View the Works
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Object number2019.00004
TitlePrinted Thames Tunnel Company Admission Ticket to View the Works
DescriptionPrinted Thames Tunnel Company Admission Ticket to View the Works, undated. Ticket to be passed to the 'Resident Engineer of the Thames Tunnel Company' to 'Admit the Bearer and Party to view the Works'. Notes that the Company 'Incorporated 24 June 1824'. Includes an image of the Thames Tunnel with vessels floating on the river above.
Bearing the signature of 'Mark Isambard Brunel' and 'Joseph Pinchbeck' (Companies chief mechancal engineer). Printed on card with blue ink, object in two parts, the ticket stuck down on paper (possibly from a scrap book).
Production date approx 1824 - approx 1843
Production period19th century
Object nameticket
Object categoryprinted ephemera
Materialpaper
Techniqueprinted
Dimensions
- ticket height: 134 mm
width: 103 mm