A Railway Cutting [image 824x544 pixels , 85]

Image title:	A Railway Cutting
Source:	Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.: “Magazine of Art Illustrated” (1878)
Place shown:	none
Keywords:	people, workmen, railways, transport, greyscale
Status:	out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested

Notes:	The engraving shows maybe 20 or more men working on making a railway cutting. In the background men are digging away at the ground; at centre, they lod the dirt onto a railway truck (US: a railroad waggon); a horse waits nearby to drag the full cart away. In the foreground is a man presumably raking the gravel between the rails, and another just looking busy, in the nature of workmen everywhere. “A very praisewothy resolution is Mr. E. Buckman’s to show modern every-day pursuits in their real picturesqueness. This year he has chosen the felicitous subject of a railway cutting with the navvies at work, and he enforces this idea by the quotation of a line of poetry—a practice which is fast decreasing with the increase of poetry in the pictures; not that Mr. Buckman’s work lacks sufficient suggestiveness in itself. The attitudes are from nature; even such simple things cannot be imagined, but must be taken from life if they are to look true.” (p. 118) Edwin Buckman (1841 – 1930) was one of the artists involved in The Graphic, a magazine started W. L. THomas in 1870. He was also a tutor to the Princess of Wales (later Queen Victoria). The wood engraving was done by someone called “Hooper” but that is all I have.
Dimensions:	118 x 170mm (4.6 x 6.7 inches)
Filename:	120-a-railway-cutting-q85-824x544.jpg
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Blog link:	http://fromoldbooks.org/r/d/pages/120-a-railway-cutting/
Artist:	Edwin Buckkman (1841 – 1930)
Scanner dpi:	1800
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The engraving shows maybe 20 or more men working on making a railway cutting. In the background men are digging away at the ground; at centre, they lod the dirt onto a railway truck (US: a railroad waggon); a horse waits nearby to drag the full cart away. In the foreground is a man presumably raking the gravel between the rails, and another just looking busy, in the nature of workmen everywhere.

“A very praisewothy resolution is Mr. E. Buckman’s to show modern every-day pursuits in their real picturesqueness. This year he has chosen the felicitous subject of a railway cutting with the navvies at work, and he enforces this idea by the quotation of a line of poetry—a practice which is fast decreasing with the increase of poetry in the pictures; not that Mr. Buckman’s work lacks sufficient suggestiveness in itself. The attitudes are from nature; even such simple things cannot be imagined, but must be taken from life if they are to look true.” (p. 118)

Edwin Buckman (1841 – 1930) was one of the artists involved in The Graphic, a magazine started W. L. THomas in 1870. He was also a tutor to the Princess of Wales (later Queen Victoria). The wood engraving was done by someone called “Hooper” but that is all I have.

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