This is a collection of pre-eminent importance. Many of the drawings are by Chief Engineer Marc Isambard Brunel himself, by his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Resident Engineer, and by Richard Beamish, Assistant Engineer. Some are by Joseph Pinchback, the Tunnel’s chief mechanical draftsman, but all are exquisitely drawn in great detail.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 2017
Grant Value: £10,000
Item cost: £208,000
Institution: Brunel Museum
Town/City: London