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Dorothea beam engine house, painting

Hughes, Olwen (Born and brought up in Rhymney. Educated in Wales, she later lived and worked in Leicester. She provided illustrations for various publications and her work appeared regularly in the Western Mail and Leicester Mercury. She was awarded MBE in 2002 ‘for services to the community’.)

Watercolour painting showing a distant view of the Dorothea beam engine house in an industrial landscape, with flooded Dorothea quarry in foreground. Signed and dated bottom right.

Dorothea beam engine house, painting
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Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

1992.156

Historical Associations

Association Type: place name
Date: 1980

Creation/Production

Hughes, Olwen

Acquisition

Collected officially

Measurements

Length (mm): 476
Width (mm): 655

Techniques

watercolour on paper
painting and drawing
pen and ink on paper
painting and drawing

Material

paper

Location

In store

Categories

Classification

topography landscape
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