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Maudslay Portable Steam Engine 1828

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pen and watercolour, 600 x 910mm., 23½ x 35_in., signed TP and dated 1828 at bottom right, scale at foot, borders painted black and with gilt rules, backed with linen, a little dusty, 1828.

***Provenance: By descent in the Maudslay family to the present owner. The firm of Maudslay, Sons and Field was founded in 1810 by Henry Maudslay (1771-1831), father of the machine tool industry and one of the greatest, though least-known, engineers of the Industrial Revolution. James Nasmyth, who when a young man worked with Maudslay, wrote of his slide rest lathe, "its influence in improving and extending the use of machinery has been as great as that produced by the improvement of the steam engine in respect to perfecting manufactures and extending commerce". He was succeeded by his son Joseph Maudslay (1801-1861) who, along with Joshua Field, developed the firm's increased specialisation in marine engines..

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