Peter,
Not a conventional rendering of an engine house, certainly - it looks as though a fair bit of artistic licence has been indulged in to show several different aspects of the building in a single painting. The hills and valleys in the background seem far too high, steep and deep to represent Cornwall, though (allowing fully for artistic licence as far as possible in all directions) the only location to be very vaguely and tentatively called to mind is a view of Johns' shaft of Tywarnhayle Mine, on the top of a steep (though modest) hill just south of Porthtowan on the north Cornish coast, looking inland along the valley leading back to Redruth.
Tony Clarke
p.s. I would not at all be surprised to hear this described as rubbish.
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:55:29 +0100
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> Subject: Engine house identity
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> One of our members - Iain Wright <[log in to unmask]> - has supplied
> an image of an engine house he wants to identify.
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> I have posted the image to the mining-history files area at JISCmail
> - you can use the following link to access the image -
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> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/mining-history/EngineHse.pdf
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> Dear List,
>
> I have been given a watercolour of an engine house which was purported to be
> in Cornwall, but which I think is in Wales. Can anyone identify the
> location?
>
> Regards,
>
> Iain Wright
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> Dr Peter Claughton,
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