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and a light brown robe

This cartoon depicts either Lord Palmerston

In the tupapow

opening day

Miners' safety lamp Finish:Rolled and a light brown robeUnpublished 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

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