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  • Chimneys showing the fireplace aperture, fire bricks and a crane. Engraving by D. Lizars.
  • Types of factory chimneys. Engraving by J.R. Robbins.
  • Handbill: Society for use of machines in chimneys cleaning
  • A silk dyeing factory with smoking chimneys; advertising John Pullar & Son, silk dyer and scourer at Perth, Scotland. Engraving by W.H. Lizars.
  • A block of flats which turns into a packet of cigarettes, surrounded by factories with smoking chimneys; representing the pollutant effects of cigarette smoking. Colour lithograph after I.V. Tomash, 1988.
  • A man and woman, semi-nude but bedecked with jewellery, accompanied by Death, are kneeling on a representation of the poor: in the background are factories with smoking chimneys. Lithograph after H. Schwaiger, ca. 1900.
  • Chimney sweep's cancer
  • Chimney sweep's cancer
  • German chimney-sweep's costume.
  • Belgian chimney-sweep's costume.
  • Two types of chimney. Wood engraving.
  • Chimney sweep's cancer of the scrotum
  • Chimney sweep's cancer of the scrotum
  • Nepal; deforestation in the Khumbu, 1986. Stacked firewood outside a Sherpa house at Phakding (altitude 3200 metres). Also shown are carrying baskets (bottom right) and prayer flags attached to thin sticks stuck into the ground. In common with many smallholdings, the ground floor of the house is reserved for animals while the family lives upstairs. By the early 1980s, it was estimated that massive deforestation was contributing to the loss of 240 million cubic metres of topsoil in Nepal each year. Sherpas rely on wood for fuel but lack of chimneys in most homes contribute to the coughs and bronchial congestion common to most. Poor hygiene is prevalent because precious wood must be destroyed to create hot water.
  • The little chimney sweep, from Kingsley, The Water Babies
  • A chimney sweep looks over the top of the chimney from where he can see a man and a woman embracing through an open window. Coloured etching.
  • Brushes of a chimney sweep. Coloured engraving by J. Lodge.
  • Chimney sweeps at work, and their brushes. Engraving by Mutlow after Blunt.
  • Two chimney sweeps, one of them is feeling ill and taking medicine. Coloured lithograph.
  • A small boy stands with a rope and a chimney brush over his shoulder. Coloured lithograph.
  • A doctor's front door, with a chimney sweep, in the snow. Chromolithograph by John Leighton ("Luke Limner").
  • A doctor's front door, with a chimney sweep, in the snow. Drawing by John Leighton ("Luke Limner").
  • Processing of sulphuric acid and section of a chimney used. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Professor and Mrs Dejerine's study in their flat Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris; desk, armchair, chimney and book. Photograph.
  • A section of a large chimney used in the manufacture of gunpowder. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Two young chimney sweeps on a decrepit horse, in a yard; a man is seated behind them, facing backwards. Etching after E.H. Landseer, ca. 1848.
  • John Cottington, a chimney-sweep, in elaborate costume walking the street with smoking pipe and horn in hand, with descriptive verse. Line block, 18--, after engraving, c. 1620.
  • A laughing chimney sweep covered in soot except for his white wig which is glowing with hair powder. Coloured etching by W. Hanlon, 1795, after G.M. Woodward.
  • John Anderson and his wife seated by a fire in a modest house; a cat sleeping on a stool in front of the chimney. Woodcut after R. Burns, 18--.
  • John Anderson and his wife seated by a fire in a modest house; a cat sleeping on a stool in front of the chimney. Woodcut after R. Burns, 18--.