Miners' safety lamp Finish:Stretched An artist copying a bust

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

Jimmy Clitheroe

View showing the 'Megatherium Mansion'

Two other soldiers guard the door

Miners' safety lamp Finish:Stretched An artist copying a bustUnpublished 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