Gas light burners Finish:Rolled a portrait painter

a portrait painter

c1874-1914

Representation of the ceremony of presenting the Sheriffs of London

A lady who has taken advantage of Female Suffrage is on her feet in a manly stance in the House of Commons

Gas light burners Finish:Rolled a portrait painterPlate 3 from the Bakerian Lecture paper 'On the composition and analysis of the imflammable gaseous compounds resulting from the destructive distillation of coal and oil, with some remarks on their relative heating and illuminating powers', by William Thomas Brande, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 110 (1820), pp. 11 28. Three figures showing an Argand burner (figures 1 and 2) and a rose burner (figure 3). Signed lower left 'Wm.