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The Westminster Fire Office : 27, King Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C.2. : A.D. 1717 : this endorsement is to be attached to policy no. ... and is declared to be incorporated with and to form part thereof.
Westminster Fire Office.Date: 1928
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A man and a woman demonstrating the process of fermentation and distillation in alchemy. Etching, ca. 17th century.
Reference: 36181i
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The nature of fire.
Date: 1969
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Imperato's asbestos experiments. Woodcut, 1599.
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Vulcan (Hephaestus), at the request of Venus (Aphrodite) makes armour for Aeneas; representing the element fire. Engraving by L. Desplaces, 1717, after Louis de Boullogne the younger.
Boulogne, Louis, 1654-1733.Date: [1717?]Reference: 2855993i
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Lot's wife looks back at the flames pouring from Heaven upon Sodom; Lot and his daughters go on ahead. Engraving by R. Sadeler after M. de Vos, 1583.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Date: 1583Reference: 15823i
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Sarawak: a Kayan man making fire by rubbing cane on wood. Photograph.
Reference: 31456i
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A surgeon bandaging a patient's knee after applying a cautery, a clergy man and a wealthy patron (?) are observing the situation. Engraving.
Reference: 22543i
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Chemistry: a large vessel for distillation, on a furnace. Woodcut after M. Augusti.
Reference: 47789i
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Fishermen with a drag-net, burning kelp on the beach, and hooks and other equipment. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 493247i
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This policy of insurance witnesseth, that in consideration of ... hereinafter called the Insured, paying to Westminster Fire Office (herinafter called the Company) the first period premium above mentioned for insuring against loss or damage by fire or lightning, the property hereinafter described ... / The Westminster Fire Office.
Westminster Fire Office.Date: 1918
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Geography: birds and animals fleeing a prairie fire. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
Whymper, Charles H., 1853-1941.Reference: 46570i
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An alchemist with his assistants in his laboratory. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1747, after D. Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [1747]Reference: 35909i
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Sins and subsequent punishment in Hell. Chromolithograph.
Reference: 26691i
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Lot and his family flee Sodom as it burns; Lot's wife faces the terrible scene, aghast. Coloured lithograph after J. Martin.
Martin, John, 1789-1854.Reference: 15821i
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A receptacle for burning coal to heat cautery instruments. Engraving.
Reference: 22314i
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The sacrifice of the son of King Moab. Engraving by H.R. Cook after P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Reference: 20007i
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Two yogis, one meditating, the other performing a fire ritual. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28663i
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A treatise on the nature and property of fire. In three essays. I. Shewing the cause of vitality, and muscular motion.... II. On electricity. III. Shewing the mechanical cause of magnetism; and why the compass varies in the manner it does / by John Freke.
Freke, John, 1688-1756.Date: 1752
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The circles of hell and limbo (containing Abraham and Lazarus) beneath the earth; snakes appear at the surface of the earth. Engraving by J. Wierix, 1595.
Date: [1595]Reference: 26239i
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An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop with his wig on fire angrily gesticulating to Susannah who holds her nose near the wounded baby Tristram Shandy. Etching by J. Bretherton, 1773, after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Date: 3 February 1773Reference: 12085i
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Aeneas is standing with his father Anchises on his shoulders as he rescues him from the fire of Troy, and he receives the household gods from his wife, Creusa. Engraving by G. Audran after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
Domenichino, 1581-1641Reference: 27553i
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William Allen, portrayed as an alchemist with several furnaces, the one which he stokes is labelled "Matter o'money". Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1827.
Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1828.Date: 8 March 1827Reference: 5013i
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A dancing couple from the Pujari caste. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28675i
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Smoke from a fire in a desolate town indicates the beginnings of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
Tarter, Albert Lloyd, 1913-1988.Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]Reference: 10135i