Rochdale Road Gas Works - Drawing Coke

Henry Edward Tidmarsh, 1854 - March 1939



Rochdale Road Gas Works - Drawing Coke

Henry Edward Tidmarsh 1854 - March 1939

Summary

Scene of men at work inside gas works. 1 man on the right is pulling a cart full of coke while another man on the left is waiting with an empty cart. 2 more men in the background are using machinery near the furnace.

Display Label

Rochdale Road Gas Works - Drawing Coke 1894 Henry Edward Tidmarsh 1854-1939 Purchased from Cassell & Co, the publishers of the three-volume book Manchester Old and New by W A Shaw (1894). Cassells hired the gallery 1-7 November 1894 for a selling exhibition of these illustrations, of which the gallery purchased 160 for £105. 1894.24


Object Name

Rochdale Road Gas Works - Drawing Coke

Creators Name

Henry Edward Tidmarsh

Date Created

1893-1894

Dimensions

sight: 26cm x 38cm
mount: 40.5cm x 53cm

accession number

1894.24

Place of creation

United Kingdom

Support

paper

Medium

watercolour
gouache

Legal

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