King Smoke
Anon
Genre: | Illustration, Drollery; Poetry, Drollery |
Relevant illustrations: | wdct. |
Subjects: | Pollution, Analytical Chemistry |
Describes the evils of 'King Smoke', including his veiling of sunlight and overlaying the 'toilet' of 'many a maiden'. Notes that although 'The chemist applied all his learning [...] their fuel men kept half-burning / Whence still the dark fumes arose'. The illustration shows a black figure who wears a smoking chimney pot for a hat and who smokes a pipe fuelled by a coal gas stove. |
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