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RefNoPT/2/14/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, 'View of Portmoon' by unknown artist
Date[1808]
DescriptionFold-out watercolour illustration titled 'View of Portmoon' showing the geological structure of cliffs in the landscape near Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.

Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A letter on the alterations that have taken place in the structure of rocks, on the surface of the basaltic country in the counties of Derry and Antrim'.

Sent by William Richardson from Richhill.
Extent1p
FormatWatercolour
PhysicalDescriptionWatercolour painting on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0164
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1808.0015
RelatedRecordPT/2/14
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8200Davy; Sir; Humphry (1778 - 1829); chemist1778 - 1829
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