View of the entrance to the Thames Tunnel, London Product:Fine art poster 'Last dying speech and Confession'

'Last dying speech and Confession'

The woman's pose travesties the words of the quotation from Sir Walter Scott

Crowded street scene in front of the Royal Exchange

pedestrians and figures carrying baskets and packages

View of the entrance to the Thames Tunnel, London Product:Fine art poster 'Last dying speech and Confession'View of the entrance to the Thames Tunnel, London, 1854. 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, and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was site engineer.