Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (Original)

Artist: Harry Green
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 18" x 12" (450mm x 305mm)
Date: 1980
Code: GreenStevensonLL

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Harry Green.

George Stephenson (see portrait in inset) prepared to drive the train which carried the Duke of Wellington on the inaugural run of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The Wapping Cutting, shown in the picture, was one of the many great engineering feats carried out on the line.

The left inset shows two competitors defeated by George Stephenson's Rocket in the Rainhill trials: Novelty (top) and Timothy Hackworth's Sans Pareil.

Original artwork for illustration on pages 16-17 of Look and Learn issue no 967 (20 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.