This is an image of a coloured lithograph, entitled<blockquote><p><i>Locomotive Engine, 'The Rocket', 1830</i></p></blockquote>published by The Leadenhall Press Ltd, 50 Leadenhall Street, London E.C. on 16 July 1894.  <br>The U.K. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Railway_Museum" class="extiw" title="w:National Railway Museum">National Railway Museum</a> has at least two copies, accession numbers <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nrm.org.uk/OurCollection/Art/CollectionItem.aspx?objid=1975-8684">1975-8684</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nrm.org.uk/OurCollection/Art/CollectionItem.aspx?objid=1978-2472">1978-2472</a>, with images available through its in-house picture agency SSPL, ref <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ssplprints.com/image/88427/unattributed-locomotive-engine-the-rocket-1830">10300243</a>.  Getty Images also has a version, credited to the Imagno agency and the Austrian National Archives, identifier <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/locomotive-engine-the-rocket-1830-built-by-george-news-photo/56465255">462393_imagno</a>. Corbis have a copy of the Austrian image, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/AU002279/locomotive-engine-the-rocket-1830-lithograph">AU002279</a>, and a black and white version <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/IH161934/locomotive-engine-the-rocket-1830-lithograph">IH161934</a>. Copies of the lithograph also come up in print shops and on Ebay <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;_trksid=p4340.l2557&amp;item=280761112342">[1]</a>.  <p>However, despite the title, the locomotive depicted is not in fact <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenson%27s_Rocket" class="extiw" title="w:Stephenson's Rocket">Rocket</a></i>, which was yellow at this time, and of a different external design.  The locomotive is actually Stephenson's 1830 locomotive <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumbrian_(locomotive)" class="extiw" title="w:Northumbrian (locomotive)">Northumbrian</a></i>, the engine closely resembling for example the contemporary engraving by Isaac Shaw published as plate 4 of his <i>A new and complete work of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway</i> (1831), although the tender is different. </p><p>Dendy Marshall (1930) identifies the print as being "after the drawing by Nasmyth of the <i>Northumbrian</i>" <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ELYbAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=">"locomotive+engine+the+rocket+1830"</a>, (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thehopkinthomasproject.com/TheHopkinThomasProject/TimeLine/Wales/LocomotiveDevelopment/WrightIllustratedHistory/WrightHTMs/StephensonRocket1830_files/image002.jpg">image</a>, reproduced from Scientific American Supplement, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ia700506.us.archive.org/4/items/scientificameric11734gut/11734-h/11734-h.htm">October 1884</a>). Nasmyth had sketched the locomotive four days before the opening of the line in September 1830, but misidentified it as the <i>Rocket</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.anvilfire.com/21centbs/stories/James_Nasmyth/jn09.htm#page152.2">[2]</a>.  Marshall comments that he had never seen a copy of the print in an early state.</p><p>A different version of the image is also held by Corbis, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/IH187731/locomotive-engine-the-rocket-1830-lithograph">IH187731</a>, and Bridgeman, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/105858/English-School-19th-century/Locomotive-Engine-the-'Rocket'-in-1830-built-by-">CHT 105858</a>, which appears to be a coloured line engraving, sourced to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheque_des_Arts_Decoratifs" class="extiw" title="w:Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs">Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs</a>, Paris.  The relation of this to the Leadenhall Press Ltd lithograph is not clear.</p>
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Original artist unrecorded; reproduced <cite class="book" style="font-style:normal" id="Reference-Gibbon-2010">Gibbon, Richard (2010)      <i> Stephenson's <i>Rocket</i> and the Rainhill Trials</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Oxford" class="extiw" title="w:en:Oxford"><span title="city in Oxfordshire, England">Oxford</span></a>:  Shire Books, p. 37  <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" class="extiw" title="en:International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a>:  <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780747808039" title="Special:BookSources/9780747808039">9780747808039</a>. </small></cite>