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This painting appears in Roscoe's autobiography. It is by Helen Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), the maternal niece of Roscoe, who painted it on the occasion of the publication of an introductory chemistry book by Roscoe and Joseph Lunt (1866-1940). Helen Beatrix Potter is well known for The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902. The text above: "A Dream of Toasted Cheese" as the educated mouse analyzes his favorite food. Below: "NH₃. The peculiar pungent smell of this compound is noticed if we heat a bit of CHEESE in a test-tube. Roscoe and Lunt. HBP 94." The Bunsen burner appears like the one viewed in the Althofen Museum {LINK: Althofen}. Roscoe actually brought the prototype idea from England to Bunsen's laboratory, where the design was modified to a pre-mixed system which gave a blue flame suitable for spectroscopy {LINK: Heidelberg}. There is evidence that the first prototype was actually designed by Faraday.