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Penrhyn slate quarry, printing plate
A rectangular copper printing plate with an image of Penrhyn Quarry engraved in reverse. The image is taken from one of the highest points in the quarry, on the upper slopes on the Fronllwyd.
The image is featured in Penrhyn Quarry’s marketing brochure ‘Penrhyn Architectural Slate’, and is titled ‘A view of the Quarry showing part of the workings and the Production Hangars’. The image is in colour. The brochure was published in 1968.
Image is the same as 2015.47/4, 6, 7.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2015.47/5
Creation/Production
unknown
Date: 1970s –
Acquisition
Donation, 13/5/2015
Measurements
Length
(mm): 239
Width
(mm): 179
Height
(mm): 5
Weight
(g): 614
Material
copper
Location
In store
Classification
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