Trains in Art - 105 High Resolution Images

From steam-filled stations and railway bridges to crowded carriage interiors, travel posters and trains threading through the landscape, artists found remarkably varied ways to depict the railway age. This Special Collection brings together 105 high-resolution images spanning Impressionism, British modernism, genre painting and graphic design.

The collection moves from the bustle of the platform to the view from the carriage window. It includes work by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Gustave Caillebotte, Honoré Daumier, Stanhope Forbes, Camille Pissarro, Eric Ravilious, David Cox, George Earl, Augustus Egg, Cyril Power and many more.

Please click on the link above to see a full list of the artists and pictures included. 

The railway transformed nineteenth- and twentieth-century life, and artists responded to its speed, smoke, engineering and social theatre. Stations became modern meeting places; carriages brought strangers together; and the train itself became a vivid symbol of movement and change.

Alongside famous paintings are striking posters, prints and lesser-known scenes: passengers waiting, workers on the line, trains crossing open country and great stations alive with steam. Together they create a wonderfully varied visual history of rail travel.

This download features 105 hi-res images in JPEG format that are all 600dpi and range in size from 3168 pixels wide/tall to 7452 pixels wide/tall.

The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.