Etching of an electrically powered garden

Made:
1755
Etching of an electrically powered garden

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Etching entitled ‘A MACHINE for a Perpetual Electrified GARDEN’. The print shows an imagined scene in which a small group of men and women in Georgian dress are inspecting an electrified garden inside a large greenhouse. The garden consists of numerous potted plants which sit in a rectangular stand raised slightly off the ground. The stand is connected at the right-hand side to an apparatus which uses hydraulic power to generate electricity for stimulating plant growth. The various components of the apparatus and the garden are lettered for identification from a key (not in the Science Museum Group's collections). Etcher unknown. Published in Benjamin Martin’s General Magazine (London, 1755).

Details

Category:
Art
Object Number:
1983-694
Materials:
printing ink and paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 125 mm x 199 mm
type:
print
credit:
Grosvenor Prints