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Interior of a Rolling Mill

Collection:  SCM - Art
Object Name:  oil painting
Maker:  Sykes, Godfrey
Place Made:  Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Date Made:  1855-1865
Materials:  oil paint on canvas
Measurements:  frame: 1340 mm x 1590 mm x 80 mm; image [sight]: 1000 mm x 1250 mm

Description:  Painting, Interior of a Rolling Mill; [Interior of a rolling mill] attributed to Godfrey Sykes, c.1860. Oil on canvas; [sight] 100 x 125cm in gilt frame 134x159x8cm. Unsigned. Although this was also attributed to W. Stevenson of Sheffield (fl. 187-), an oil of this title exhibited at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, in 1871, was attributed to Sykes by Mark Firth of Thomas Firth and Sons, Sheffield, a company renowned for ordnance steel manufacture. This shows the interior of a rolling mill (steel-working), lit by the glow of an ingot emerging from the rollers, the scene depicting works machinery, tools and workmen.

Object Number:  1985-1966

Credit Line:  Purchased (Fulda Gallery)

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Thomas Firth & Sons
1842-1930, steel and steel tool manufacturers, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, British
Sykes, Godfrey
1824-1866, artist; painter; sculptor; designer, English; British
Stephenson, W
active 1870s, artist; painter, British
Firth, Mark
1819-1880, steel manufacturer, English; British
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