Samuel Crompton Inventing the Spinning Mule

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This imagined scene showing Crompton inventing the spinning mule in Hall i' th' Wood captures the later Victorian ideal of the heroic inventor.

Bolton Museum and Art Gallery

Bolton

Title

Samuel Crompton Inventing the Spinning Mule

Date

1895

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 76 x W 63 cm

Accession number

BOLMG: 1999.195

Acquisition method

purchased, 1979

Work type

Painting

Bolton Museum and Art Gallery

Le Mans Crescent, Bolton, Greater Manchester BL1 1SE England

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