Engraving titled:
WATERLOO BRIDGE
London  Tombleson & Co, Paternoster Row
Waterloo Brucke
Pont de Waterloo
Abresch, Sculpt.

Approximate dimensions:
Print - 156mm X 110mm

Engraved by Franz Abresch (fl.1832-1841) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd and originally published with the part-work series “Tombleson’s Views of the Thames and Medway” (London : 1833-1834).

William Tombleson (1795 - c. 1846) was an English topographical and architecture artist, illustrator, copper and steel engraver, writer and printmaker, based in London.

In the 1830s, his topographical drawings of the upper and middle River Rhine in Germany, and of the rivers Thames and Medway in England were published as engraved prints and books.

Franz Abresche was a steel engraver, studied under Frommel, worked with J. Poppel.