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Print (Etching) of the great oak at Hempstead, Essex, and Clipston Hospital, Gentleman's Magazine, London, 1802

Inventory Number 13629


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.13629

Item type
Object
Primary inscriptions
Clipston Hospital: T. Reynolds del. The great Oak at Hemstead, Essex: S.R.R. del. 1801.
Physical material
Paper
Physical medium
Black ink
Physical technique
Etching
Object type
Print
Dimensions
Height: 210mm Width: 130mm
Inventory No
13629

Description

The 'great oak at Hemstead' is likely the tree that Dick Turpin reportedly hid himself in.