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                                 Image number: RS.8768
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            “Sections and plan of the termination of the Conductor… [of Heckingham Workhouse, Norfolk]”
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                                1782
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (painting): 147mm
width (painting): 218mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (painting): 218mm
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                                Plate 11 figures 5-7 from the paper “Proceedings relative to the accident by lightning at Heckingham”, by Charles Blagden, Edward Nairne and other contributors, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.72 part 1 1782 pp.355-378. The full title caption reads: “Sections and plan of the termination of the Conductor at the South-East angle of the Building.” Not signed.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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