View of the shield used in the construction of the Thames Tunnel, London India with a Jewish seller of

with a Jewish seller of old clothes approaching

Women weep into handkerchiefs

In the centre a man wearing steam driven boots has ground to a halt

Also showing the royal carriage

says Check and Parnell

View of the shield used in the construction of the Thames Tunnel, London India with a Jewish seller ofView of the shield used in the construction of the Thames Tunnel, London, 1835. The Thames Tunnel, connecting Wapping and Rotherhithe, was the first underwater tunnel in the world. Completed as a foot tunnel in 1843, it was converted to a railway tunnel for the East London Railway in the 1860s. Sir Marc Isambard Brunel designed the tunnel, and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was site engineer.