![]() Ltd in Manchester engaged James Mudd to photograph its new engines, and soon many of Britain’s major railway companies were employing their own photographers. In 1856 the locomotive builder Beyer, Peacock & Co. Before long, more sophisticated negative processes were used to record railway construction projects. The two new technologies dovetailed-just as early drawings of locomotives had been done principally for technical purposes, photography wasn't yet viewed as an art form in its own right, but made an excellent tool for documenting new engineering developments.Įarly daguerreotypes included a view of Linlithgow station by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, and unknown photographers' images of Great Western Railway locomotives. The first known railway photographs were taken in the 1840s, only a few years after photography was invented. 441.The pocket camera is synonymous with trainspotters and railway enthusiasts now, but when were the first photographs of the railways captured? Who took them, and why? Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p.V., “Stevens, Alfred,” in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p.Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p.Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p.Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p.Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p.Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), p.Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p.Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p.Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p.Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1907), p.Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1904), p.Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p.“Chicago, ILL.: The Art Institute of Chicago,” in American Art Annual 1898 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1899), p.Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1898), p.Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1896), p.Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p.Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), p.“Treasures in Canvas: The Enlarged Art Institute Galleries Thrown Open,” Chicago Daily Tribune (February 25, 1890), p.
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