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- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately May 1829]
- Call Number:
- 829.05.00.09+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Fantastical depiction of advancing technology that includes all manner of steam-powered or aerial contraptions, domestic appliances, tunnels to the North Pole and South America, and a circulating library
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Approximate date of publication based on that assigned to the companion print. See no. 15779 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatues are daily pub. ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on old album paper. Manuscript date "1828" in ink following title.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
- Subject (Topic):
- Steam, Airships, Steam automobiles, Steamboats, Pneumatic tubes, Libraries, and Garbage collecting
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > March of intellect. [graphic] / No. 2