Forms of miners' safety lamp Finish:Float frame A rowdy scene at Smithfield

A rowdy scene at Smithfield cattle market with the wife for sale tied by a rope around her waist to a rail in the centre

7th March 1977

with a long blue robe trimmed with fur

then as the offices of a wine merchant before being demolished in 1937 to make way for a branch of Marks and Spencer

with sheep

Forms of miners' safety lamp Finish:Float frame A rowdy scene at SmithfieldPlate 5 from the paper 'Some new experiments and observations on the combustion of gaseous mixtures, with an account of a method of preserving a continued light in mixtures of inflammable gases and air without flame', by Humphry Davy, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 77 85. Whole views and details of safety lamps including Davy's platinum wire refinements. Original: ink on paper. 1817