Miners' safety lamp Wooden Cladding by Robert Smirke

by Robert Smirke

Christ healing a man at the pool of Bethesda

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

Tomb of the Duke and Duchess of Lancaster

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