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Cripplegate Postern

The image is a satire on Wellington's lavish expenditure and trifling domestic economies

William Faithorne the Younger

A crowd of spectators can be seen behind the wire fencing

Davy lamp equality Cripplegate PosternOriginal model for a miners' safety lamp by Humphry Davy, the narrow cylindrical gauze is shown housed under a glass dome on an ebonized base. Davy created the lamp for use in coal mines, he discovered that a flame enclosed inside the fine mesh does not ignite firedamp (methane and other flammable gases) thus preventing explosions. ca. 1815

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