John Cooke Bourne (1814-1896), lithographer: Drawings of the London & Birmingham Railway (1836-1838) Chapter 6. Iconology

摘要

As we have seen, it was fortuitous that the highpoint in the development of tinted lithography coincided with Bourne's own aesthetics. It was thus that he was able to apply the technique, in a novel way, to the developing genre of railway topography. But in 1836, when Bourne began drawing at Camden, aquatints were still the medium of choice in which Bury, in particular, presented the railway as a dramatic intruder into the landscape. One aspect of Bury's aquatints was the inclusion of trains as a major feature. This possibly stems from the vindication of the locomotive as the superior means of haulage which was new when Bury produced his Liverpool and Manchester aquatints.