Two views of the Thames Tunnel, commemorating the visit by Queen Victoria, London Size:XL: 100 x 75cm showing figures feeding an elephant

showing figures feeding an elephant

' Two children buy from a periwinkle seller with a statue in the distance

A corpulent man is holding three wigs on a stand

with figures and horse drawn cart on the street

Two views of the Thames Tunnel, commemorating the visit by Queen Victoria, London Size:XL: 100 x 75cm showing figures feeding an elephantTwo 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,