print
- Museum number
- Q,8.56
- Title
- Object: An iron forge at Tintern, Monmouthshire
- Description
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View with a mill in the foreground, a scale on the left, weights on the ground; a figure resting under a large log leaning against the mill on the right; another figure behind a wall in the right middle distance, pointing to right; after Hearne; open-letter state. 1798
Etching with engraving
- Production date
- 1798
- Dimensions
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Height: 218 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 255 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print is from an unidentified series of country views by Pouncy after Hearne, published by Lowry for Alexander in 1798. Date from published state, 1870,0514.1631. For another impression, see 1867,1214.244.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1810
- Acquisition notes
- The 'Book of Donations 1756-1823' records a large number of prints given by William Alexander, who had been appointed Keeper of Prints & Drawings in 1808, to the BM on 8 December 1810. One group of 6 prints in the gift was of topographical views after Hearne, of which this must be one.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Q,8.56
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 1981,U.2154
