Deliberate use of light to achieve a practical or aesthetic effect

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Boer War: a funeral on board a ship at night with officers and crew standing round the body. Watercolour with gouache by W. T. Maud, 1899.

Various studies of light on trees. Watercolours.

8th Xhosa War: the funeral of a British war victim under torchlight on the field. Lithograph, ca. 1852.

Three men drinking in the light of a flame held by a boy. Aquatint by A. Bissell, c. 1800, after J. Trautmann.

Women, plumbers, and doctors, or, Household sanitation / by H.M. Plunkett.

The Museum of Practical Geology, Piccadilly: the interior. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1848, after B. Sly.

The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, May 1932, before occupation. Photograph.

On the results of a series of experiments on the decomposition of water by the galvanic battery : with a view to obtain a constant and brilliant lime light / by N.J. Callan.

Ventilation and heating, lighting and seeing / issued by the Industrial Health Research Board of the Medical Research Council.

The lighting of buildings / by the Lighting Committee of the Building Research Board of the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.

Insolation and fenestration : an investigation into the problems of overheating in multi-storey buildings, as a result of solar radiation through large glass areas / by A. C. Hardy and P. E. O'Sullivan.

Specification of Enoch Tonkin : Globular stove or fire-place.

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Lighting

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On the results of a series of experiments on the decomposition of water by the galvanic battery : with a view to obtain a constant and brilliant lime light / by N.J. Callan.

Ventilation and heating, lighting and seeing / issued by the Industrial Health Research Board of the Medical Research Council.

The lighting of buildings / by the Lighting Committee of the Building Research Board of the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.

Insolation and fenestration : an investigation into the problems of overheating in multi-storey buildings, as a result of solar radiation through large glass areas / by A. C. Hardy and P. E. O'Sullivan.

Specification of Enoch Tonkin : Globular stove or fire-place.

Lighting

Images from the collections

Images referencing Lighting

Works from the collections

On the results of a series of experiments on the decomposition of water by the galvanic battery : with a view to obtain a constant and brilliant lime light / by N.J. Callan.

Ventilation and heating, lighting and seeing / issued by the Industrial Health Research Board of the Medical Research Council.

The lighting of buildings / by the Lighting Committee of the Building Research Board of the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.

Insolation and fenestration : an investigation into the problems of overheating in multi-storey buildings, as a result of solar radiation through large glass areas / by A. C. Hardy and P. E. O'Sullivan.

Specification of Enoch Tonkin : Globular stove or fire-place.

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