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MID-19TH CENTURY
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY WHEELBARROW
MID-19TH CENTURY
The open planked body with parcel-gilt blue-painted cast-iron wheel
25.1/2 in. (65 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide; 63 in. (160 cm.) long
MID-19TH CENTURY
The open planked body with parcel-gilt blue-painted cast-iron wheel
25.1/2 in. (65 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide; 63 in. (160 cm.) long
Literature
Possibly, Seaham Hall inventory, 1854, entrance hall.
Probably, Wynyard Park inventory, 1886, vol. II, p. 358, Billiard Hall, ‘Spanish Mahogany Wheel barrow used by “Charles William Vane” Marquess of Londonderry to carry the first “Sod” of the Londonderry Seaham & Sunderland Railway February 1853’.
Probably, Wynyard Park inventory, 1965, vol. i, p. 92, Duke’s Gallery.
Probably, Wynyard Park inventory, 1886, vol. II, p. 358, Billiard Hall, ‘Spanish Mahogany Wheel barrow used by “Charles William Vane” Marquess of Londonderry to carry the first “Sod” of the Londonderry Seaham & Sunderland Railway February 1853’.
Probably, Wynyard Park inventory, 1965, vol. i, p. 92, Duke’s Gallery.
Sale room notice
This is not the wheel barrow used at the digging of the first sod of the Seaham railway shown in the painting lot 535, although it is likely that it may have served a similar purpose on another occasion.
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Katharine Cooke
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