One of the advantages of oil over gas [graphic]Dighton, Richard, 1795-1880, printmaker, artist[approximately 1821]eng"A fashionably dressed man approaches the steps leading to a street-door, unconscious of a shower of oil which descends on hat and coat from a lamp-lighter on a ladder (left). The latter, can in left hand, tinder-box in right, looks to the left, carelessly tilting his can."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Reissue of a plate in a series that was originally published by G. Humphrey in October 1821. For the first plate of the original issue of the series, see no. 14289 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10.