Sir Joseph Bazalgette, CB, British civil engineer Product:Fine art poster Lord Hood on the left

Lord Hood on the left is inscribed Themistocles

There is a flotilla of boats on the sea beneath him

View of the Church of Our Blessed Lady and St Joseph

Plate 48 from Volume 2 of Travels in the Interior of North America

Sir Joseph Bazalgette, CB, British civil engineer Product:Fine art poster Lord Hood on the leftSir Joseph Bazalgette, CB, British civil engineer, 1877. Bazalgette's major achievements were in the field of public health engineering. He designed the London sewerage system, completed in 1875, which greatly reduced the pollution of the Thames and dramatically improved the public health of the city. He designed the Thames Embankment to accommodate the sewer as well as providing a thoroughfare along the river. From Men of Mark: a gallery of