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LicensePrint. A kiln for burning coke near Maidstone Kent
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Print. A kiln for burning coke near Maidstone Kent. / London Pub 1 Novr 1799 at R Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand. - 1799. - aquatint, col., some handcol.; image 28.3x21.8cm, platemark 32.8x24.8cm, mounted in frame 54x45.5x1.5cm. - 'No.55' in the plate, tr. - Night scene, an exterior landscape view transformed with the orange light of the furnace, moon and fall on workmen outside the kiln; the reverse is painted [by Orme] to change effects when light is back-projected
