US$ 167.58
Resting on the table is a wooden pen tray with a glass ink bottle
View with two figures and two dogs by a barrow
N' denoting Isaac Newton
but the cabinet was unwilling to accept this compromise
Original is oil on canvas 56x23
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Resting on the table isIsambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer, 1857, (1956). Brunel (1806 1859) standing in front of the launching chains of his steamship the 'Great Eastern'. Brunel left school in 1822 to work for his father Marc Isambard Brunel on the construction of the Thames Tunnel. He later became the chief engineer of the Great Western Railway between 1833 and 1858, and designed many bridges and viaducts including the Royal Albert Bridge in Saltash, Cornwall, and