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Lime kiln on Abberley Hill

Reference code
prattinton/01/39/01/01
Title
Lime kiln on Abberley Hill
Date
[1812 or 1813]
Level of description
item
Scope and content
Coloured tracing of a print by Burney showing two men and a kiln. One man is carrying a hod of coal. Flames can be seen coming out of the roof of the kiln.

Signed TFB, traced by Mr Wright 1812.

The initials T F B for Thomas Frederick Burney are given on the right hand side. "a genius for pen-and-ink drawings. He died in 1785 at the age of 20" (from 'Friends of Claines Church'). Brother to Edward Francis Burney who also made many prints of Worcestershire.