The Iron Horse Is Born (Original)

Artist: Harry Green
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 18" x 12" (450mm x 300mm)
Date: 1980
Code: GreenPBillyLL

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Harry Green.

The colliery steam engine Puffy Billy which was a great advance in the development of steam locomotives shown here with William Hedley the engineer and his assistant Timothy Hackworth who later took part in the famous Rainhill trials for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway - the world's first passenger steam locomotive service.

Inset at top right is Richard Trevithick's locomotive. In the middle is George Stephenson's Rocket and at bottom his more advanced Planet.

Published in Look and Learn #968 27th September 1980.

• Artist Biography
  Harry Green (born 1920; UK)
  A little-known artist, Harry Green contributed extensively to Look and Learn in the 1970s and 1980s, illustrating a variety of subjects ranging from historical buildings to football. However, it was as a transport illustrator that he really made his mark in the 1980 with the series "Britain's Railway Wonders". Green also contributed illustrations to Speed & Power in the 1970s.
  
  His book illustrations include Architecture (1969), Architecture: The Great Art of Building (1969), Discovery of Australia (1969) and Discovery of South America (1970), some of which were jointly illustrated by Gwen Green who was also a prolific children's educational book illustrator.