Etching of an electrically powered garden
- Made:
- 1755
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LicenseEngraving. A machine for perpetual electrified garden. Unsigned. Book or magazine illustration 177-?
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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:
- paper (fibre product) and printing ink
- Measurements:
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overall: 125 mm x 199 mm
- type:
- taxonomy:
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- visual and verbal communication
- credit:
- Grosvenor Prints
