Broadsheet with letterpress: The gas lamplighter of this district... [c1840]. With wood engraved scenes of a gasometer

Made:: circa 1840

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Broadsheet with letterpress: The gas lamplighter of this district... [c1840]. With wood engraved scenes of a gasometer, lighter falling off a ladder, emblem, young Queen Victoria; text account of the manufacture of gas; verses to 'amuse and instruct' - poems to and by your gasman. Sheet 47.5x35.5cm.

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Category:: Art

Object Number:: 1997-378

type:: broadsheet with letterpress

credit:: Grosvenor Prints

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Broadsheet with letterpress: The gas lamplighter of this district... [c1840]. With wood engraved scenes of a gasometer

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