John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Size:S: 40 x 30cm He won 3 Grands Prix

He won 3 Grands Prix in his short career before he was killed at the Nürburgring in Germany

'Brunnhilde slowly and silently leads her horse down the path to the cave'

Inscribed in pencil top right 'Photog 253'

Sectional view of the Church of St Giles in the Fields

John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Size:S: 40 x 30cm He won 3 Grands PrixJohn Ericsson, Swedish born American engineer and inventor, (c1880). On moving to the USA in 1839, Ericsson designed many warships including the 'Monitor' (1861), the first warship with an armoured turret, and 'The Destroyer' (1878), which could launch submarine torpedoes. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.