An iron-founder's forge. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1773, after J. Wright, 1772.
- Wright, Joseph, 1734-1797.
- Date:
- Jan.y 1 1773
- Reference:
- 46147i
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Left, a heavy tilt-hammer is raised and dropped on to an iron ingot by the rotating cams protruding from a wheel powered by a stream or river outside the building. The iron-founder, benefitting from the labour-saving hammer, stands with his arms crossed, in the presence of his family. Another man uses tongs to hold the white hot iron on the anvil under the hammer
Publication/Creation
[London] : J. Boydell excudit, Jan.y 1 1773.
Physical description
1 print : mezzotint
Lettering
An iron forge. Jo. Wright pinx.t 1772 ; R.d Earlom sc.
References note
Benedict Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby, painter of light. London 1968, vol. 1, pp. 50-51, 237, no. 197 (referred to in Wright's account book as "The picture of the iron forge to Ld. Palmerston £210")
F. D. Klingender, Art and the industrial revolution, London, 1947, fig.10, p.174
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Wellcome Collection 46147i
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