Miners' safety lamp Size:S: 36 x 28cm Original is oil on panel

Original is oil on panel 45

c1868-1918

'Best Mode of Going to Bartholomew Fair'

Eagle House was at this time a private school for boys

Miners' safety lamp Size:S: 36 x 28cm Original is oil on panelPlate 15 from the paper 'On the means of procuring a steady light in coal mines without the danger of explosion', by William Reid Clanny, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 103 (1813), pp. 200 205. Three figures showing an arrangement for keeping a candle flame alight in coal mines without the risk of fire damp explosion. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Signed 'I. Farey delin' {John Farey junior (1791