‘I have driven locomotives a lot in many parts of the world ... I think to paint engines, one has really got to drive them ... by driving the thing and realising that your puny hands can control this monster … the mere fact of being saturated with this thought makes you paint them correctly, makes you paint their weight and their power’.

- Terence Cuneo (in an interview with James Mellen, IWM Oral History, 1978,Cat no. 3817, Reel 4, 02:48-03:40)

Terence Cuneo is probably best known for his railway paintings. In the mid-1920s Cuneo had his first experience of driving a steam-engine – a day which left a lasting imprint on his mind and stirred a passion to last him a lifetime.

With its brooding sky, and incredible surface, See, Here is a Picture of my Grand Daughter, Boulogne Depot is a particularly dramatic composition. Occupying the centre of the composition, a class 230 DI locomotive is waiting in Boulogne Depot.

We are very grateful to the Cuneo Society for their assistance in cataloguing this work.

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