Title

Nant-y-Glow Iron Works, Monmouthshire, Wales, c1780, (c1830). Artist: Unknown

Caption

Nant-y-Glow Iron Works, Monmouthshire, Wales, c1780, (c1830). This shows the works by moonlight. The buildings on the left are probably puddling furnaces, those on the right blast furnaces. The proprietor of Nant-y-Glow was the ironmaster Richard Crawshay (1739-1810).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1830

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B63_375

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

30,0Mb (3,5Mb) / 13,5in x 8,6in / 4058 x 2582 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal building buildings people male event man men animals horses horse Wales night industry manufacturing country pollution metal science trade guy bridge solar system astronomy British moon moonlight chimney lunar location century iron Britain Welsh time of day furnace iron and steel industry industrial revolution 19th century 18th century Eighteenth Century ironworks nineteenth century Monmouthshire Oxford Science Archive blast furnace metal industry Nant-y-Glow Iron Works puddling furnace TGN engraving Unknown George Richard George Robertson;Robertson Richard Crawshay Crawshay Richard Crawshay engraving