Important Americana: Furniture and Folk Art
Important Americana: Furniture and Folk Art
Property of a West Coast Collector
A. Smithyes
Steam Locomotive 'The Prince of Wales'
Lot Closed
January 21, 05:41 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a West Coast Collector
A. Smithyes
Steam Locomotive 'The Prince of Wales'
oil on panel
1843
signed and dated lower right A. (?) Smithyes 1843
Height 22 1/2 in. by Width 38 3/4 in.
The 'Prince of Wales" locomotive was designed by Robert Stevenson in 1842 for the York and North Midland Railway. The locomotive’s “long boiler-type” engine powered it to achieve 48 mile/h using an average coke consumption of 19.2 lb/mile. Stevenson patented the design for the long boiler-type engine, which is characterized by the placement of the firebox behind the rearmost driving axle, in 1842. The locomotive featured driving wheels between 5 ft. 6 in. and 6 ft., 14 x 20 in. cylinders, a total heating surface of 795 ft1, and a haystack firebox. After mergers created the North Eastern Railway (NER) in 1854, the engine was numbered 261.
1 J.S. MacLean, The Locomotives of the North Eastern Railway, 1841-1922 (Newcastle, R. Robinson & Co., 1923), 32-33.