Falcon Glassworks, Blackfriars Size:XS: 25 x 20cm Richard and John E

Richard and John E

31st December 1993

Interior of the Church of St Stephen Walbrook during a service

Poster for the Societe Populaire des Beaux Arts

Falcon Glassworks, Blackfriars Size:XS: 25 x 20cm Richard and John EView 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