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  • A tooth-drawer frightening his patient with a hot coal in order to be able to extract a tooth more easily. Etching by J. Collier after himself, 1773.
  • Fishmongers' Hall, Thames Street, London: the entrance to the hall, with elaborate allegorical carving above the doors, two fashionable ladies, a scholar and a coal-heaver in the street. Engraving by J. Greig after T. H. Shepherd, 1830.
  • Supply the bearer of this ticket (not transferable) with a bag of coals, value one shilling, or with one shilling's worth of groceries or flour / H.S. Thompson.
  • A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
  • Apparatus for coal mining and two illustrations of coalmines. Engraving by A. Krausse for G. Heck.
  • Supply the bearer of this ticket (not transferable) with a bag of coals, value one shilling, or with one shilling's worth of groceries or flour / H.S. Thompson.
  • A tooth-drawer frightening his patient with a hot coal causing him to pull away violently and extract a tooth. Coloured etching, 1810, after J. Collier.
  • A tooth-drawer frightening his patient with a hot coal causing him to pull away violently and extract a tooth. Pen drawing after J. Collier, 1773.
  • Machinery designed by Smeaton for extracting coal from the pits. Etching by W. Lowry after J. Farey.
  • A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
  • Collier and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Engineering: a patent furnace with continuous solid-fuel feed. Coloured lithograph.