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Clay

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Soils
Geologic Sediments

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Images about Clay

22 images from works
  • Brick-making: a young woman is pulling a large wheelbarrow full of clay while a boy tips a barrow load into a pug-mill, to which a horse is attached by a yoke. Coloured aquatint with etching after W.H. Pyne, 1805.
  • Clayton's patent tile, brick and pipe machine.
  • Human head sculpted in clay, forming the cheekbones
  • Human head sculpted in clay, forming the eye sockets
  • Human head sculpted in clay, facial muscles of expression
  • Human head sculpted in clay, facial muscles
  • Human head sculpted in clay, early stage in process
  • Human head sculpted in clay, facial muscles
  • Human head sculpted in clay, completing the eye
  • Human head sculpted in clay, applying the skin
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3 works

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    Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the additional petition of Mess. Clay and Midgley merchants in Liverpool, and George Brown merchant in Glasgow, their attorney, ..

    Clay | Date: [1769]
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    Answers for Mess. Clay and Midgley, merchants in Liverpool, and George Brown merchant in Glasgow, their attorney; to the petition of James Coulter, merchant in Glasgow, and others

    Clay | Date: [1768]
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    Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Mess. Clay and Midgley merchants in Liverpool, and George Brown merchant in Glasgow, their attorney, ..

    Clay | Date: [1768]

Top contributors to the collections in Clay

Midgley (merchants : Glasgow, Scotland)

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