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'The Coffin-Ships'
The plate is inscribed below: 'Plate VII
Map produced in commemoration of the Great Exhibition of 1851
Reading Pop Festival
'A meeting of umbrellas'
Optical effects in crystalline materials under pressure treated like a doormat 'The Coffin-Ships'Plate 9 figures 1 14 from the paper 'On the communication of the structure of doubly refracting crystals to glass, muriate of soda, fluor spar and other substances, by mechanical compression and dilatation', by David Brewster, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 136 178. The drawings are inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Original: ink and watercolour on paper.
