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  • Angels blow trumpets and fire descends upon the earth. Woodcut, 16th century.
  • Marriage of Rama to Sita with Brahmins making fire sacrifice. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Boer War: Indian ambulance bearers under fire. Process print after R. Caton Woodville.
  • A column emerges from the sacrificial fire as eighteen deities perform a yagna, an old vedic ritual where offerings are made to the god of fire, Agni. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • South Africa: an avenue lined with Fir trees in Rondebosch. Photograph by George Washington Wilson, 1896.
  • Gaius Mucius Scaevola's ordeal by fire: Gaius Mucius is holding his outstretched arm over the fire blazing in a cauldron before the king, watched by a crowd of soldiers. Etching by J. Goupy, 1726.
  • Gaius Mucius Scaevola's ordeal by fire: Gaius Mucius is holding his outstretched arm over the fire blazing in a cauldron before the king, watched by a crowd of soldiers. Etching by J. Goupy, 1726.
  • Geography: birds and animals fleeing a prairie fire. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Vishnu, Lakshmi (?), Brahman, Shiva and two priests perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice, an old vedic ritual where offerings are made to the god of fire, Agni. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Xavier Chabert, a fire eater. Stipple engraving by W. Holl, 1829, after A. Wivell.
  • Vulcan at his forge; representing fire. Engraving by E. Jeaurat, 1716, after N. Vleughels.
  • Vulcan at his forge; representing fire. Engraving by E. Jeaurat, 1716, after N. Vleughels.
  • Stocksigns wallchart of fire signs to BS 5499 : part 1 1990 / Stocksigns Ltd.
  • The Virgin of Succour protecting a man whose house is on fire. Coloured etching.
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including fire, earthquake, war, and shipwreck. Coloured lithograph, [c.1835?].
  • A Chinese fire-eater and attendant. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Chimneys showing the fireplace aperture, fire bricks and a crane. Engraving by D. Lizars.
  • Saint Florian: he extnguishes a fire by pouring water on a burning house. Coloured engraving.
  • A woman's chemise catches fire. Coloured photomechanical reproduction after A. Legrand after J.H. Fragonard.
  • Three Wallachian men round a log fire with distilling apparatus nearby. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.
  • African people of the Camma tribe dancing by the light of a fire. Wood engraving.
  • Angels blow trumpets in heaven and fire descends on a river. Woodcut, 16th century.
  • Fire tests with textiles : flannelette "ordinary", flannelette "fine finish", art muslin, curtain net, scenic canvas, as also tissue paper and wadding; untreated and treated with Snowdon's Flame-Proofing Solution submitted for test by Snowdon & Co., Ltd., London the Committee's report / [British Fire Prevention Committee].
  • Fire tests with textiles : flannelette "ordinary", flannelette "fine finish", art muslin, curtain net, scenic canvas, as also tissue paper and wadding; untreated and treated with Snowdon's Flame-Proofing Solution submitted for test by Snowdon & Co., Ltd., London the Committee's report / [British Fire Prevention Committee].
  • The fire ordeal of Prince Siyavash. Gouache painting by a Persian artist, ca. 1800 (?).
  • Two Indian soldiers (?) take aim and fire their rifles. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Attackers hit by a barrage of fire from a castle. Colour woodcut by Yoshitora, 1859.
  • Diagrams of a fire grate and a fireplace with surround. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.
  • Cleopatra setting fire to the sails of a ship . Etching by F. Chauveau., 1648.
  • Trimurty, the three headed Shiva, sitting with eight other priests (?) perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice, an old vedic ritual where offerings are made to the god of fire, Agni. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.