Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

G B *

Subjects:

Economic Geology, Domestic Economy, Political Economy

    Shows an elderly man sitting by a fire in his drawing room. He tells his maidservant not to 'put too many coals on' because it makes him 'shiver when I think that in three hundred years we shall have none left'. This responds to contemporary debate on the rapid depletion of Britain's coal measures.