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Samuel Crompton Inventing the Spinning Mule

Image credit: Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

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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.

Hall i' th' Wood Museum

Bolton

Title

Samuel Crompton Inventing the Spinning Mule

Date

1880

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 35 x W 44 cm

Accession number

BOLMG:2001.30

Acquisition method

purchased, 1984

Work type

Painting

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Hall i' th' Wood Museum

Green Way, Off Crompton Way, Bolton, Greater Manchester BL1 8UA England

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