The building of New London Bridge

Details

William Knight (d.1832)
The building of New London Bridge
pencil and watercolour, with scratching out, unframed
13 x 19¾ in. (33 x 50.1 cm.)

Provenance

Gardner Collection.

Engraved

Aquatint, F.G. Harding, London, 21 May 1832.

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Lot Essay

The artist was employed in the offices of Sir John Rennie for whom he acted as resident architect or clerk of the works for the construction of Plymouth Breakwater and of London Bridge. He exibited at the Royal Academy from 1807 onwards, his drawings including a plan and elevation of the elder Rennie's Southwark Bridge (1822), and the works of the new London Bridge in progress as they appeared in August 1827 (1832).
For a note on the building of New London Bridge see lot 14.

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