Victorian Rural Train Station and Railroad Crossing

Victorian Rural Train Station and Railroad Crossing

John Connell Ogle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ogle here represents a country train station with an oriel window and half-timbering on the end wall. Beneath a roof at right figures wait for a train while a horse drawn carriage approachs on a road at right with a spired church in the distance. At left, a signal man holds a red flag.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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