Miners' safety lamp Wooden Cladding by Robert Smirke

by Robert Smirke

Tomb of the Duke and Duchess of Lancaster

I'll be bound to say a figure such as this you'll see there every day'

View of the gateway bearing a carved key in the stone gable

Windsor & Co & all the fancy queens'

Miners' safety lamp Wooden Cladding by Robert SmirkeUnpublished illustrations, apparently intended for the paper 'On the fire damp of coal mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion', by Humphry Davy, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 1 22. A slip of paper with safety lamp designs attached to a single page of text (original pagination '21'), the latter endorsed 'London Novr. 9 1815'. Original: ink on paper. 1815