A woman is passing a shop selling oil lamps and is knocked off her feet by the blast of an explosion. Etching by Richard Dighton.

  • Dighton, Richard, 1795-1880.
Date:
1821
Reference:
35914i
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London (26 Haymarket) : Thos. McLean, 1821.

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1 print : etching ; platemark 28 x 23 cm

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A London nuisance Ple. 5th. One of the advantages of gas over oil. Richard Dighton inv. et sculp.

References note

David Padfield, A view of Dightons: the Dighton family, their times, caricatures and portraits, London 2007, p. 102

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Wellcome Collection 35914i

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