The comforts of a Rumford stove / Js. Gillray des. & fect. ad vivum.
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.