on 11/7/02 5:21 AM, Peter Challis at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> On Friday, June 28, 2002, at 02:31 AM, Gerard MacGill wrote:
>
>> The First Report of the Childrenıs Employment Commission had
>> illustrations
>> by Binney, commissioned by Southwood Smith. Can anyone tell me Binney's
>> full name and anything else about him (assuming it is indeed a him).
>> Gerard MacGill
>> 52 Harvest Road, North Fremantle WA 6159
>> (08) 9335 7471; Facs (08) 9335 8241
>>
>>
>
> This has puzzled me, so I waited to see if any erudite mining historian
> would shed some light on the question.
>
> Having consulted Klingender's mighty work, 'Art and Industrial
> Revolution, I find he appears to be silent on the name. It would
> therefore appear safe to say that he, possibly she, is not amongst
> 'great and the good' of the artists/illustrators who turned their skills
> towards depicting the IR?
>
> Nor is Binney mentioned in 'Coal:British Mining in Art 1680-1980',
> although a couple of the illustrations from the 1842 Commissioners'
> Report, are reproduced without attribution.
>
> Not having a copy of the Report easily to hand I'm wondering if Binney
> was in fact the engraver of the illustrations? Although the
> reproductions in my possession don't appear to include anything to
> suggest that possibility.
>
> There was an, Edward William Binney, 1812-1881, who was, I think I'm
> correct in stating, a Scottish geologist, but there was also another E.
> W. Binney, a solicitor in Edinburgh who was in partnership with
> 'Paraffin Young'. Unlikely to be either of course.
>
> I wonder if either the British Museum Prints Dept or the Science Museum
> may be able to throw any light on this intriguing question.
>
> Peter Challis
>
My reference stated "a set of pictures drawn by Binney on the spot".
Brian Lewis, Coal Mining in the 18th and 19th Centuryı in Seminar Studies
in History, Patrick Richardson (ed) (London: Longman, 1971), p.58.
I no longer have access to the book, but I can't recall that this
information was sourced.
Gerard MacGill
52 Harvest Road, North Fremantle WA 6159
(08) 9335 7471; Facs (08) 9335 8241
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