Waterloo Bridge. Steel engraving. Drawn by T. Shepherd and engraved by Abresch. From Eighty Picturesque Views of the Thames and Medway.
Text accompanying the engraving
It has five immense semi-elliptic arches, the centre embracing 152 feet, and the two narrowest 130 feet each, which latter exceeds in extent the span of any other stone bridge in Europe. Immediately on leaving the bridge are seen the picturesque ruins of the old London-bridge, erected between the years 1176 and 1209, and the first that crossed the river at the metropolis, and from whence the port of London originally commenced. [74]
Other images of Waterloo Bridge
- Waterloo Bridge, watercolor by Edward L. Laurenson
- Waterloo Bridge, etching by D. Murray Smith
- Waterloo Bridge, etching by Percy Robertson, R.E.
- Waterloo Bridge, etching by William Monk, R.E.
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Bibliography
Fearnside, W. G. Eighty Picturesque Views of the Thames and Medway, Engraved on Steel by the First Artists. London: Black and Armstrong, [n.d. after 1837]. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of California at Berkley Library. Web. 30 March 2012.
Last modified 1 May 2012