Sujet

Part of the Victoria Tower - the Hoisting-Scaffold, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Part of the Victoria Tower - the Hoisting-Scaffold, 1850. '...there are few mechanical contrivances employed in the various works at the New Palace, Westminster, of more interest than the novel and admirable scaffold used in the erection of that enormous and magnificent pile, the Victoria Tower. The singular appearance of the scaffold, viewed from all parts - seemingly nothing more than three huge cranes, and the perfectly easy manner in which they appear to work, are extremely striking and interesting, in addition to the circumstance that the exterior of the building is not disfigured during its progress by a forest of scaffold-poles, stretching their gaunt limbs in every direction...we trust the brief notice we have given will enable our readers to appreciate one of those wonderful mechanical means of saving labour which so eminently distinguish the era of modern engineering...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A34_012

Model release

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Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

46,5Mo (3,6Mo) / 42,0cm x 27,7cm / 4960 x 3276 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building London England people male technology man men lifting politics engineering frame construction site steam guy scaffold scaffolding British palace political building site Westminster Victorian century Houses of Parliament Britain steam power ladder ladders framework newspapers press civil engineering B&W hoisting framed engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Palace of Westminster Victoria Tower City of Westminster The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper Unknown lifting gear 19th-century