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[Review of: Our domestic fireplaces / by Frederick Edwards. New ed. London : Longmans, Green, 1870].
Date: 1870- Books
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Disclaimer and memorandum of alteration of James Morrison and James Brown to specification of Miles Berry : apparatus for promoting combustion, &c., in furnaces and closed fireplaces.
Morrison, James.Date: 1858- Books
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Specification of Henri Adrien Bonneville : smoke-consuming fireplace.
Bonneville, Henri Adrien.Date: 1867- Books
Practical ventilation as applied to public, domestic, and agricultural structures : being an elucidation of plans and suggestions, of easy application, for ventilating every species of architectural structure, with remarks on heating, construction of fireplaces, cure of smoky chimneys; and an appendix on the ventilation of ships, steamboats, and railway carriages / by Robert Scott Burn.
Burn, Robert Scott.Date: 1850- Pictures
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A man standing by a fireplace, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching after J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Reference: 12065i- Pictures
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A man standing by a fireplace, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching after J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Reference: 12059i- Pictures
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A man standing by a fireplace, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching after J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Reference: 12061i- Pictures
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A man standing by a fireplace, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching after J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Reference: 12064i- Pictures
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A man standing by a fireplace, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching after J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Reference: 12058i- Pictures
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A man standing by a fireplace, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching after J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Reference: 12062i- Pictures
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The Franc (Liberty, castellany) of Bruges: a sculpted fireplace in the magistrates' assembly hall of the castle (Landhuis). Lithograph by E. Manche.
Manche, Édouard, 1819-1861.Date: [between 1840 and 1849?]Reference: 8716iPart of: The chasse of Saint Ursula. Lithographs by L.J. Ghémar and E. Manche after H. Memlinc, 18--.- Pictures
King's College Hospital, London: the fireplace in the men's common room. Process print, 192-.
Reference: 552417iPart of: Architecture illustrated.- Archives and manuscripts
The fireplace (artwork)
Date: 1974-1984Reference: PP/RSI/B/2/3/40Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Pictures
A woman covered in an oiled silk cloak with a vapour machine which is linked to fireplace in front of her. Engraving.
Date: [1828]Reference: 20232i- Books
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The theory of chimnies and fire-places investigated; the principle of those recommended by Count Rumford, fully explained, and their Construction Improved: and a Great Improvement, on a Principle Very Little Known, and in a Manner Never Practised. To which is added, a method of preparing houses and Ships, at Little Expence, in such a manner, that, in of fire, it may be extinguished with the Utmost Ease and Certainty. By Thomas Danforth, Esq. Formerly a Fellow of the Corporation of Harvard University, at Cambridge, in America.
Danforth, Thomas, 1772-1817.Date: 1796- Archives and manuscripts
A room with a fireplace and a cat (artwork)
Date: May 1962Reference: PP/RSI/B/2/7/30Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Child psychiatry - A fireplace and chimney (artwork)
Date: 1960s-1997Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/6/5/9Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Books
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The mechanism of fire made in chimneys: or, the art of improving the effects and diminishing the expences thereof. Containing a treatise of new-invented chimneys, that afford more Heat than the others, and are not subject to Smoak, &c. set forth in French by Monsr. Gauger: the entire work faithfully translated in English, from the last Paris-Edition, and Revis'd by several skilful Artists, so as to render it suitable to the Genius and Capacity of our workmen. To which is added, all the author's original draughts corrected and fairly engraved on copper-plates, with a large alphabetical table, explaining near Two Hundred Terms of Art, and other hard Words in the Treatise.
Gauger, Nicolas, approximately 1680-1730.Date: MDCCXVI. [1716]- Books
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Fires improved: or, a new method of building chimnies, so as to prevent their smoking. In which A Small Fire, shall warm a Room much better than a Large One made the Common Way. And the Method of altering such Chimnies as are already Built, so that they shall perform the same Effects. By Monsieur Gauger. Made English from the French original. By J. T. Desaguliers, L. L.D. and F.R.S.
Gauger, Nicolas, approximately 1680-1730.Date: [1736]- Books
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Fires improv'd: being a new method of building chimneys, so as to prevent their smoaking: in which a small fire, shall warm a room better than a much larger made the common way. With the manner of altering such chimneys as are already built, so that they shall perform the same effects... / Written in French, by Monsieur Gauger: Made English and improved by J.T. Desaguliers... By whom is added, the manner of making coal-fires... The whole being suited to the capacity of the meanest workman.
Gauger, Nicolas, approximately 1680-1730.Date: 1715- Pictures
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The first floor front room at No. 19 Greville Street, Holborn: looking towards the fireplace. Pencil drawing by J. P. Emslie, c.1882.
Emslie, John Philipps, 1839-1913.Date: 1882Reference: 36077i- Pictures
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A man sits smoking by a fireplace with a jug on the floor beside him. Engraving, c. 1825.
Date: 1 September 1825Reference: 24845i- Pictures
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A family gather indoors round a large open fireplace talking and smoking. Engraving by C. de Visscher after A. van Ostade, c. 1656.
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Date: 1656Reference: 24698i- Pictures
Men sitting by a fireplace in an inn: they drink, smoke, play the bagpipe and make advances on women. Etching after J. Dassonville.
Dassonville, Jacques, approximately 1609-1670.Reference: 2846782i- Archives and manuscripts
A cat sitting on a rug near a fireplace (artwork)
Date: 1970sReference: PP/RSI/B/1/2/10/7Part of: Rita Simon Collection