- Subject
- Printing & writing
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Transferred from the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1954. The magnet itself was at one period in the University Museum, which may explain why the engraved plate and spare prints came into the possession of the Pitt Rivers Museum.
- Primary inscriptions
- The caption reads: 'Magnes rarissimae Magnitudinis, quem Illustrissima Dom: Dom: Comitissa de Westmorland Academiae Oxon. donavit, et in Musaeo Ashmoleano reponendum esse voluit. A.D. 1756.'.
- Object type
- Printing plate
- Inventory No
- 13174
Description
Approximately 11 x 7½ inches. In an envelope addressed to Henry Balfour. Accompanied by several pulls from the plate, wrapped in heavy blue paper bearing the date 1838.
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