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- 1864 (Creation)
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1 framed coloured lithograph
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W W Webb also authored "The Complete Account of the Origin and Progress of the Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon From the Year 1753 to the Present Time". Copies were published in 1864 and 1865 and sold from the Bridge. A W.W. Webb also appears to have worked for Osborne, Ward & Co, solicitors to the Provisional Clifton Suspension Bridge Committee in the 1860s.
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The print is inscribed: "This view is respectively dedicated to the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the City of Bristol and The Chairman (Mark Huish Esq.) & Directors of the Bridge Company" and is noted as being "sold on the bridge & by all booksellers". Also included are statistics about the bridge.
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Framed.