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                                 Image number: RS.8771
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            “Full size of the Conductors… [of Heckingham Workhouse, Norfolk]”
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                                1782
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (painting): 219mm
width (painting): 150mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (painting): 150mm
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                                Plate 12 figure 12 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: “Full size of the Conductors, shewing the manner of their being jointed.” Face and profile details. The plate is marked “Fig XII” upper left. Not signed.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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