Refinement posters & prints

Rock Salt: Refining salt, Northwich, Cheshire, England, c19th century Unknown

Laboratory for refining gold and silver, showing typical laboratory equipment, 1683 Unknown

Stamp for breaking copper cupellation cakes for further refining, 1556 Unknown

The International Exhibition: Sugar-Refining Apparatus, 1862, Messrs. Caile And Co. Of Paris Anonymous

Solitary Refinement, 2014 David Arsenault

Venetian Wax Refinery Jan van Grevenbroeck

Fashionable Refinities Valentine Thomas Garland

J. Gillray: A Proof of the Refined Feelings of an Amiable Character, Lately a Candidate for an Ancient City (York).... Anonymous

Refining Oil, c.1910 Charles Webster Hawthorne

Grinding and polishing plate glass Anonymous

Smelting of ores (gold, silver, copper and lead), 1556 Unknown

Making maple syrup in the good old fashioned way, c.1906 Detroit Publishing Co.

Clarifying sugar cane juce, Annam, Vietnam Anonymous

Lead smelting, 1556 Unknown

Refining saltpetre French School

The Cathedral, Marston Salt Mine, Northwich, Cheshire, England, 19th century Unknown

The Shopkeeper Anonymous

Tea in the Garden Jules Cayron

A Bright Angry Glance Anonymous

Separating lead from silver or gold in a cupellation furnace, 1556 Unknown

Emily Georgiana Stuart Cox

The Stairs Anonymous

The Speech Anonymous

Now, Then, Are These Young Ladies Ready? Engraving 1890 Anonymous

The Betrothal: A Young Couple in an Elegant Interior, 1678 Eglon Hendrick van der Neer

Interior Anonymous

Interior with a carpet, a sword and a jug on a table, a cello on a chair, a coat hanging... Cornelis de Man

Halstead & Co. Beef & Pork Packers, Lard Refiners & Co. Anonymous

Silver mine of La Croix-aux-Mines, Lorraine, fol.22v and fol.23r, foundry and refining, c.1530 Heinrich Gross or Groff

Salt Works, Amsterdam, 1660 Unknown

Smoking a Cigarette Anonymous

Stamping and roasting ore to extract metal, 1556 Unknown

Emily Georgiana Stuart Cox

Slave labour on a sugar plantation in the West Indies, 1725 Unknown

The Visitor Anonymous

Fashion plate depicting male clothing French School