Under Construction Gallery

Choose from 95 items in our Under Construction Collection for your Wall Art and Photo Gifts

Construction of the Needle Eye Bridge over the M1 at Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 1963

$Great Eastern on the stocks at Millwall on the Thames, 1857. View from the stern, showing the vessel in John Scott Russells (1808-1882) yard. Double-hulled, of all iron construction, and powered by four steam engines driving both paddle wheels and screw propeller, the Great Eastern was intended for the passenger trade between Britain and Australia and India. After a few troubled passenger voyages she was sold for £ 25, 000, a fraction of the building cost of probably £ 500, 000, and converted to a cable laying ship. In this role she was used in laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1865-1866, and other similar projects. The Great Eastern was Isambard Kingdom Brunels (1806-1859) last great project. He collapsed on her deck on her launch in 1858 and died a few days later. From The Illustrated London News. (London, 7 November 1857)$

Great Eastern on the stocks at Millwall on the Thames, 1857

Construction of Holborn Viaduct, City of London, 1869. Artist: Henry Dixon

Carlock farmstead, Ola self-hHelp sawmill co-op, Gem County, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Dinner Time, Gatun Lock, 1912. Creator: Joseph Pennell

Steam Shovel at Work in Culebra Cut, 1912. Creator: Joseph Pennell

The Cut, Looking toward Ancon Hill, 1912. Creator: Joseph Pennell

Building the Camp, 1917. Creator: Joseph Pennell

The Guard Gate, Gatun Lock, 1912. Creator: Joseph Pennell

At the Bottom of Gatun Lock, 1912. Creator: Joseph Pennell

Looking up the Cut from Bas Obispo, 1912. Creator: Joseph Pennell

Laying the Floor of Pedro Muguel Lock, 1912. Creator: Joseph Pennell

Steam Shovel in the Cut at Bas Obispo, 1912. Creator: Joseph Pennell

The Cut from Culebra, 1912. Creator: Joseph Pennell

A.S. Howard Building Under Construction, 1885. Creator: Unknown

Scott Monument before Completion, Edinburgh, 1844. Creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

Nelsons Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, first week of April 1844

Shipyard of James Ash & Co, Cubitt Town, London, c1863

Tower Bridge under construction, London, c1893

View of Tower Bridge under construction with river traffic in the foreground, London, c1893

Ship and boats on the River Thames, London, c1913

Construction of the Thames Tunnel, London, 1827. Artist: George Cooke

Railway line near Wandsworth Station, London, 1838. Artist: JR Jobbins

View from the excavations of Highgate Tunnel, London, 1812. Artist: George Arnald

View of figures on Holborn Viaduct during its construction, City of London, 1870

View of construction work at St Katherines Dock, Stepney, London, January, 1828

The Thames Tunnel under construction, London, c1835

Old and new London Bridges, London, 1831. Artist

Old and new London Bridges looking south, London, 1831. Artist

View of St Pauls Cathedral under construction, City of London, 1685 (c1853). Artist

London Bridge under construction, 1827. Artist: George Cooke

London Bridge, with the Lord Mayors procession passing under the unfinished arches, 1827

The Nelson at the Royal Dockyard, Woolwich, London, 1815

Holborn Viaduct, London, 1869. Artist: CC

Construction of one of the towers of the George Washington Bridge, New York, USA, late 1920s

Building the Fort Loudon Dam, Tennessee, USA, early 1940s

The Olympic Stadium from the Bell Tower, Berlin, Germany, c1936-c1936

$Isambard Kingdom Brunel beside the Great Eastern, c1857. Brunel (1806-1859) proposed to the Eastern Steam Navigation Company the construction of a steamship five or six times the size of any then in use. It would use two forms of power: paddle-wheels and screw-engines. Constructed from iron at Millwall, London, between 1853 and 1858, the Great Eastern was the largest vessel afloat until she was broken up in 1888. Only in 1899 were her dimensions exceeded by the SS Oceanic. The Great Eastern was not a success as a passenger vessel and was sold for a fraction of her building cost. She was used as a cable-laying ship, most notably laying the Transatlantic telegraph cable in 1865-1866$