The comforts of a Rumford stove / Js. Gillray des. & fect. ad vivum.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
The comforts of a Rumford stove / Js. Gillray des. & fect. ad vivum.
[London] : Pubd June 12th, 1800 by H Humphrey, 27 St James's Street, [1800]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.630
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[London] : Pubd. June 12th, 1800 by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street, [1800]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Print shows Count Rumford standing in profile to the right, smiling; he pulls aside his coat-tails to warm his back at the fire. The fire-place has a small rectangular aperture, set low, the grate triangular in shape and resembling a modern fire-place. On the small high chimney-piece are a coffee-pot with a wide base and long handle, and a round cooking-pot. He grins with satisfaction, his profile is drink-blotched, and he wears (inconspicuously) a parti-coloured ribbon. His boots are of the fashionable Hessian pattern.

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