Cleaning Gas Retorts, St Pancras

Made:: 1951 in London

maker:: Cliff Rowe

Drawing. [Cleaning Gas Retorts, St Pancras] / Cliff Rowe, 1951. Charcoal on cream; 76x56cm. Signed in charcoal, brc: Rowe/51. Depicts two operatives, in protective clothing, handling pipes to clean a gas retort furnace, the top of a five-layer stack

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Category:: Art

Object Number:: 1985-1355/40

Materials:: charcoal

Measurements:: overall: 76 x 56 cm

type:: drawing

credit:: Cliff Rowe

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