Miners' safety lamp Finish:Stretched 'Essence of Parliament'

'Essence of Parliament'

Jimmy Clitheroe

An artist copying a bust on a pedestal in the Royal Academy at Somerset House

Two other soldiers guard the door

Other walkers stare and point

Miners' safety lamp Finish:Stretched 'Essence of Parliament'Unpublished illustrations, apparently intended for the paper 'On the fire damp of coal mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion', by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