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Summary
James Nasmyth's 1871 painting of a steam hammer celebrates industrial production on a grand scale. In a scene resembling grand opera, slave-like humans labour to satisfy the machine's demands, man-handling a massive iron bar between the hammer's jaws. Engineer as well as artist, Nasmyth was famous as a builder of steam hammers.