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    Image number: RS.8769
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    “Perspective view of the End of the Wall Plate… [of Heckingham Workhouse, Norfolk]”

    Date
    1782
    Object type
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    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 151mm
    width (painting): 220mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Plate 11 figure 8 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: “Perspective view of the End of the Wall Plate and part of the Rafters.” Publishing details have been added in pencil upper right and the plate is marked “Fig VIII”, also upper right. Not signed.
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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