‘The Mining Chronicle’
Date
1837
Creator
Henry Thomas de la Beche (1796 - 1855, British) , Geologist
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 327mm
width (page): 206mm
height (drawing): 67mm
width (drawing): 206mm
width (page): 206mm
height (drawing): 67mm
width (drawing): 206mm
Subject
Description
Sketch of two miners, one holding a lamp, the other a pick, leaning on a shield which bears an illustration of the sun shining down on the entranceway to two mining shafts. The shield sits on a pile of rubble, possibly a small slag heap.
Inscribed 'The Mining Chronicle/ No.5, 337, 894, 1837/ Thursday Feb.2. Price 4 1/2 pence.'
Headpiece to ‘The Mining Chronicle’, a spoof newspaper featuring lampoons of the Cornish mining and railway industries and the work of Robert Were Fox, created by Henry de la Beche. Item 124 in MS/710, a volume of Fox’s correspondence.
Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche (1796-1855), British geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819.
Robert Were Fox (1789 - 1877), British geologist and physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1848.
Inscribed 'The Mining Chronicle/ No.5, 337, 894, 1837/ Thursday Feb.2. Price 4 1/2 pence.'
Headpiece to ‘The Mining Chronicle’, a spoof newspaper featuring lampoons of the Cornish mining and railway industries and the work of Robert Were Fox, created by Henry de la Beche. Item 124 in MS/710, a volume of Fox’s correspondence.
Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche (1796-1855), British geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819.
Robert Were Fox (1789 - 1877), British geologist and physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1848.
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