Falcon Glassworks, Blackfriars mb-height 3917 Interior of the newly created

Interior of the newly created Fleet Street sewer

The background consists of a scene in the Surrey Zoological Gardens and features the lake

His posture is looking upwards to where (in the original) his wife stood

and musical archivist

Falcon Glassworks, Blackfriars mb-height 3917 Interior of the newly createdView of a glass works furnace in operation with glassworkers shaping and blowing molten glass. The view shows a Stourbridge brick dome and is based upon Apsley Pellatt & Company's Falcon Glassworks at Holland Street, Blackfriars, London. The scientist Michael Faraday FRS (1791 1867) used the factory to aid in his researches into optical glass during the 1830s. Figure from page 56 of the book Curiosities of glass making with details of the processes