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- Museum number
- 2019,7004.1
- Title
- Object: Key to Certificate of Membership of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Machinists, Millwrights, Smiths and Pattern Makers
- Description
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An architectural structure with a mixture of classical and contemporary figures: 1. Fame is crowning 2. a smith and 3. an engineer; the former refuses to mend the broken sword of Mars, god of war, while the latter accepts a design from the muse, Clio; 4. and 5. two kneeling men illustrate Aesop's fable of the bundle of sticks showing that ‘Union is Strength’; three portraits show great inventors of the industrial revolution, 6. James Watt, 7. Samuel Crompton and 8. Richard Arkwright; below 9. a phoenix rises from its ashes and 10 - 14.five scenes show branches of the ‘Iron Trade’; on either side are15 . and 16. views of the ‘Practical results of Science and Labour’ – railways, factories and steam ships; 17. the national flowers – rose, thistle and shamrock - at the base of the design show the unity of British workers. 1852
Lithograph printed in colour
- Production date
- 1852
- Dimensions
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Height: 255 millimetres (printed surface)
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Width: 177 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For an impression of the related "Emblem", see 2017,7013.2
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2018
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2019,7004.1