Samuel Crompton inventing the spinning mule

Bayes, Alfred Walter (1832-1909)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1895
Height:
76.0 cm  (29 15/16 in.)
Width:
63.0 cm  (24 13/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
    [Museum inv. no.: 1999.95]

Description

This imagined scene shows Crompton with his famous invention, in his workshop plucking at a violin.

People as subjects

Crompton, Samuel (1753-1827)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]

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Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

5505

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