John
Cooke Bourne
was born in 1814. He became a lithograph artist in London and in 1836
drew a series of delicate pencil drawings of the London
& Birmingham Railway. His book Drawings
of the London & Birmingham Railway
was published in 1838. He then carried out a similar project during
the building of the Great Western Railway.
History
and Description of the Great Western Railway
was published in 1843.
In 1848 Charles Vignoles invited Bourne
to record the building of the Dnieper Bridge in Kiev, Russia. Bourne
also took photographs of the men working on the bridge.
John
Cooke Bourne, whose later
work was undistinguished, died in 1896.
J. C. Bourne, London & Birmingham Railway Engine House
(1836)
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