1899 · Open and Enclosed Carbon Arcs · Work 1238 of 1,871
A high panelled meeting hall in Westminster on a March evening, gaslights turned low, rows of chairs with gentlemen in dark frock coats seen from directly behind, faces turned fully away, at the front a long table with two small furnaces of pale fire-clay with dark graphite lids, thick cloth-covered cables, above on a large white screen two glowing arcs side by side, the left steady white-yellow, the right greenish and spurting, beside the table the woman, a small woman of forty-four, dark curly hair pinned high, pince-nez, dark high-collared dress with a bow, one hand raised toward the screen, her face in three-quarter view.