Feb 24, 2022 - Sale 2596

Sale 2596 - Lot 239

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

AUTUMN IN THE WOODS / BY SOUTHERN ELECTRIC. Circa 1930s.


39x24 inches, 99x61 cm. Photochrom Co. Ltd., London.
Condition B+: overpainting over tape marks in corners; repaired tears at edges; repaired pin holes in corners. Framed.

Britain's Southern Railway began running electric trains in the early 1930s, with over 96 miles of track electrified by 1937 when regular electric service began. This bucolic image focuses on autumnal majesty rather than the technological marvels of the electric trains themselves.