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  • Five men sit smoking round a fireplace, another stands with his back to the fire. Mezzotint after A. van Ostade (?).
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • Louisa Mabreé, a French midwife being executed in a cage full of cats above a fire. Coloured aquatint.
  • Women wearing crinolines which are set on fire by flames from a domestic fireplace. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • The London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: two nurses and a patient [?] in front of a guarded fire. Watercolour painting by Nurse Flower, 1891.
  • Marriage of Rama to Sita with Brahmins making fire sacrifice. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • 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.
  • Three Wallachian men round a log fire with distilling apparatus nearby. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.
  • A man so engrossed in news of the French Revolution that he unwittingly sets his wig alight with his candle. Etching, 1789.
  • Saint Peter Celestine: a house is set on fire by devils, but he fights against it with the prayer and the sign of the Cross. Engraving by A. [?] van Merlen.
  • The city fire at Enschede on 7 May 1862: people are gathered on a bridge and on the bank of a river, soldiers on horse-back are directing them, and they are being given help. Wood engraving by M. Jackson.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as protector against fires. Engraving by Geoffroy.
  • Two men play cards at a table as others watch and smoke by the fire. Engraving by J. Michel, c. 1778, after J. Boydell after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A man so engrossed in news of the French Revolution that he unwittingly sets his wig alight with his candle. Etching, 1789.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
  • The London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: a nurse and two female patients [?] one drying her hair in front of a fire. Watercolour painting by Nurse Flower, 1891.
  • A woman's chemise catches fire. Coloured photomechanical reproduction after A. Legrand after J.H. Fragonard.
  • Court of Yama, God of Death. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • 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.
  • Protect your child from fire : close fitting garments plus fire guards spell safety : see also our pamphlet "A child in danger" / Fire Offices' Committee, Fire Protection Association, London.
  • An ornate garden obelisk with a scene of figures round a large fire carved on the base. Etching by J. Schynvoet after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
  • A burning building seen from the water at night. Gouache painting.
  • Stocksigns wallchart of fire signs to BS 5499 : part 1 1990 / Stocksigns Ltd.
  • A procession to St. Mary's Church, Oxford by the convocations of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; and the burning of the bones of Protestant theologians in Cambridge. Line engraving by Myers.
  • Clothing on fire & method of treatment / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • Westminster Hall: fire-fighters preventing the fire of 1834 from entering the hall. Coloured lithograph, 1834.
  • Men attempt to quell the flames of the House of Commons with water piped from fire engines and a rocket attached to a man's back inscribed 'war'. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.