Concept
Fires
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![The London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: two nurses and a patient [?] in front of a guarded fire. Watercolour painting by Nurse Flower, 1891.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0013548/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
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A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 45101i
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Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.
Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.Date: [1718]Reference: 20216i
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Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as protector against fires. Engraving by Geoffroy.
Date: [1842?]Reference: 10199i
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A journal of the plague year, or, Memorials of the great pestilence in London, in 1665 / by Daniel De Foe. Revised edition with historical notes by E. W. Brayley ... Also, some account of the great fire in London in 1666, by Gideon Harvey ... with an appendix containing the Earl of Clarendon's account of the fire. With illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1881]
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A woman's chemise catches fire. Coloured photomechanical reproduction after A. Legrand after J.H. Fragonard.
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, 1732-1806.Reference: 16023i