Mersey Tunnel Opening
1 2019-11-18T15:49:57-05:00 Kate McDonald 306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f 35 7 Article from Illustrated London News on Mersey Tunnel plain 2020-12-15T11:46:33-05:00 Liverpool Mersey Tunnel 53.4000, -3.0000 "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 1886 Public domain Nathaniel Isaacson NI-0026 Printed Material Nathaniel Isaacson 9a313a8f88ba8c43c463465ac9070fc9a3b50539This page is referenced by:
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Engineering Abroad: the Mersey Tunnel in Anglophone Media
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"The Prince of Wales at the Mersey Tunnel." Illustrated London News [London, England] 30 Jan. 1886: 111+. Illustrated London News. Web. 17 June 2019.
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"The Mersey Railway Tunnel." Illustrated London News [London, England] 11 June 1881: 586+.
While 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, construction, and eventual opening appearing in Illustrated London News between 1881 and 1886 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.
