Rail Fever (Original)

Artist: Harry Green
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 18" x 12" (445mm x 300mm)
Date: 1980
Code: GreenStarLL

This is the unique original Watercolour painting by Harry Green.

A Stephenson locomotive, North Star, hauled one of the inaugural trains at the formal opening of the broad-gauge Great Western Railway in 1838. The insets show a Stephenson Planet locomotive that was an advance on his famous Rocket design in that it had interior cylinders.

The badge is that of the London and North Western Railway which was the first to connect London and the North of England and the portrait is of the famous railway builder Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

From Look and Learn issue 969, 4th October 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.