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Mersey Tunnel Opening
12019-11-18T15:49:57-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f354Article from Illustrated London News on Mersey Tunnelplain2020-09-05T16:15:18-04:00"The Prince of Wales at the Mersey Tunnel." Illustrated London News [London, England] 30 Jan. 1886: 111+. Illustrated London News. Web. 17 June 2019.January 1886Nathaniel IsaacsonNI-0026Kandra Polatis4decfc04157f6073c75cc53dcab9d25e87c02133
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12019-11-18T15:49:57-05:00Engineering Abroad: the Mersey Tunnel in Anglophone Media19English-language Reportage on the Tunnelplain2020-12-15T11:40:45-05:00Liverpool1886While the image from Dianshizhai was an original lithograph, the artist clearly borrowed from the visual style used by western news sources.
Reports of the tunnel's planning and construction appearing in Illustrated London News are stylistically very similar, featuring a panorama of the Mersey River teeming with steamships at the top of the page, and a cutaway view of the tunnel descending beneath the river. Both Chinese and English-language images include rudimentary depictions of the support and ventilation structure of the tunnel.
The Dianshizhai huabao image appears to combine these two images, featuring both a panoramic cutaway, and a more detailed illustration of the train itself moving through the tunnel.
