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This print depicts three horse-drawn engines belonging to the 'County', 'Phoenix'and 'Westminster' Fire Offices racing one another along a London street to reach a night-time fire.
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London Fire Engines: The Noble Protectors of Lives and Property
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After James Pollard
London Fire Engines: The Noble Protectors of Lives and Property
etching and aquatint in colours, with hand colouring in watercolour, c. 1830, on wove, by R. G. Reeve, published by T. McLean, London, the colours still fresh, with margins, a repaired tear to the upper left and right margin, further shorter repaired tears and abrasions, not examined out of the frame, framed in a period wooden frame with accompanying presentation plaque
Image: 51 x 74 cm.; Frame: 88 x 109 cm.
London Fire Engines: The Noble Protectors of Lives and Property
etching and aquatint in colours, with hand colouring in watercolour, c. 1830, on wove, by R. G. Reeve, published by T. McLean, London, the colours still fresh, with margins, a repaired tear to the upper left and right margin, further shorter repaired tears and abrasions, not examined out of the frame, framed in a period wooden frame with accompanying presentation plaque
Image: 51 x 74 cm.; Frame: 88 x 109 cm.
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