QUEEN VICTORIA\'S WINDSOR TRAIN COACH 1880 RARE MOUNTED RAILWAY PRINT 60 YRS OLD for Sale

QUEEN VICTORIA\'S WINDSOR TRAIN COACH 1880 RARE MOUNTED RAILWAY PRINT 60 YRS OLD For Sale

$QUEEN VICTORIA\'S WINDSOR TRAIN COACH 1880 RARE MOUNTED RAILWAY PRINT 60 YRS OLD$
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QUEEN VICTORIA\'S WINDSOR TRAIN COACH 1880 RARE MOUNTED RAILWAY PRINT 60 YRS OLD:
$15.17

LISTEDHERE AMAGNIFICENT NOSTALGIC LARGEMOUNTEDPRINT FROMTHE ARCHIVES

SO RARE IMAGE PROBABLY THE ONLY ONE NOW AVAILABLE

QUEEN VICTORIA\'S COACH ON ONE OF HER JOURNEYS BETWEEN WINDSOR AND BALLATER, ABOUT 1880

BY ARTIST DAVID KNIGHTTHE PRINT IS 60 YEARS OLD PERFECT
IMAGESIZE: 9\" x 8\" LARGE IMAGE

CONDITION:PERFECT

A MOUNTED PRINT IS WHENthe original artwork, photograph, print or picture has been given a professional rigid backing. This backing protects the image from warping and damaged corners. You can frame, or display the mounted image and store it with confidence in the knowledge that the print will stay as new as the date it was issued.

Prints will be mounted to include the original print border if applicable if so this will be stated in the listing.

This fine image was issued and released sixty years ago when the topography of railways was being compiled.

PERFECTLY STORED IN OUR ARCHIVES AND SINCE MOUNTED BUT NOT FRAMED

You may occasionally see a similar item listed, this happens ifwe have more than one of the prints in the archives

ABOUT THE PICTURE
The railway age and the Victorian age are almost synonymous. But the Queen herself had to be won over. Without going as far as those of her squirearchy who tried to fight off the railway surveyors with shotguns, she regarded the new means of travel circumspectly. It was left to her relatives - such as the dowager Queen Adelaide, for whom the first couchette was built - and her husband to convert her. Prince Albert travelled from Paddington to Slough several times from 1839 onwards and also journeyed by rail as far afield as Bristol. Then, in June 1842, the Queen made her first journey in a coach built by the Great Western some years before. The driver of the locomotive was Daniel Gooch; the fireman, Brunel. The Sovereign was reproached for recklessness by priests politicians, publicists and physicians. But on the whole, the trip - which was made very cautiously - pleased her; and soon afterwards she risked not only her own life but that of her heir, the infant Prince Edward, on a return journey. So, in the next few years, every company likely to carry the royal personage was busy building special saloons, many of them destined to be in their turn remodelled or replaced. Perhaps the most famous of all these vehicles was the pair of bellows-connected coaches built by the London and North Western Railway in 1869. They were later reconstructed as a single carriage; but such furniture and fittings as the quilted sides and ceiling, and the elaborate lighting made necessary by the fact that the company preferred gas but the Sovereign favoured oil, were all preserved as were the carved, gilded headstocks on the outside of the coach.WORLDWIDE POST CAL

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