A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama Size:S: 60 x 45cm Inscribed in print and pencil

Inscribed in print and pencil

Shelagh McGrath

A lone policeman is depicted as trying to deal with vagrants

Chief of the Blackfoot nation

The Saxon bridge was pulled down in 1014 by the Norwegian prince Olaf

A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama Size:S: 60 x 45cm Inscribed in print and pencilA lock on the Panama Canal, Panama, 1926. The idea of building a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was first planned by the French civil engineer and builder of the Suez Canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps. The French began work in 1880, but 9 years later the difficulties posed by the terrain, disease and spiralling costs doomed the project to failure. The United States bought the land in 1904 for $40 million, and proceeded to complete the 80