Victorian Rural Train Station and Railroad Crossing
Ogle here represents a country train station with an oriel window and half-timbering on the end wall. Beneath a roof at right figures wait for a train while a horse drawn carriage approachs on a road at right with a spired church in the distance. At left, a signal man holds a red flag.
Artwork Details
- Title: Victorian Rural Train Station and Railroad Crossing
- Artist: John Connell Ogle (British, 1813–1877 London)
- Date: 1844–77
- Medium: Watercolo, pen and ink
- Dimensions: Sheet: 12 1/8 × 18 1/2 in. (30.8 × 47 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008
- Object Number: 2018.839.9
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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