Two views of the Thames Tunnel, commemorating the visit by Queen Victoria, London Size:XL: 100 x 75cm showing figures feeding an elephant

showing figures feeding an elephant

Half length portrait

with figures and horse drawn cart on the street

Lower panel consists of Wren's plan for rebuilding London

' Two children buy from a periwinkle seller with a statue in the distance

Two views of the Thames Tunnel, commemorating the visit by Queen Victoria, London Size:XL: 100 x 75cm showing figures feeding an elephantTwo views of the Thames Tunnel, commemorating the visit by Queen Victoria, London, 1843. At the top is a view of the Queen arriving at the tunnel entrance, and beneath is a view in the tunnel. The Thames Tunnel, connecting Wapping and Rotherhithe, was the first underwater tunnel in the world. Completed as a foot tunnel in 1843, it was converted to a railway tunnel for the East London Railway in the 1860s. Sir Marc Isambard Brunel designed the tunnel,