Two views of the Thames Tunnel, commemorating the visit by Queen Victoria, London Sir Thomas Gresham Parnell was unpopular at the

Parnell was unpopular at the time owing to a forged letter in the Times which accused him of approving the Phoenix Park murders in Dublin

containing the main entrance to the exhibition and sculpture

He is dressed in uniform and exudes an imposing air through expression and both of his hands which rest on top of a cane

A man and a woman prepare to leave a room where men lie drunk on the floor

Two views of the Thames Tunnel, commemorating the visit by Queen Victoria, London Sir Thomas Gresham Parnell was unpopular at theTwo 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,