The Old Bridge across the Lune at Lancaster

The old medieval bridge at Lancaster fell into disuse only two years after this drawing was executed when a new and much less picturesque crossing was opened upstream at Skerton in 1788. Thomas Girtin made a watercolour of the medieval bridge in around 1797 (Tate Britain, Turner Bequest, CCCLXXIX.16) and another view of it by Edward Dayes was engraved by John Walker for the Copper Plate Magazine of 1 November 1797.