Appearance of phenomena immediately after the beginning of totality Appearance of phenomena immediately previous to the end of totality / Vincent Brooks, lith. – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Appearance of phenomena immediately after the beginning of totality Appearance of phenomena immediately previous to the end of totality / Vincent Brooks, lith., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Appearance of phenomena immediately after the beginning of totality Appearance of phenomena immediately previous to the end of totality / Vincent Brooks, lith.
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Two plates from Warren De La Rue's account of the total solar eclipse of July 18, 1860, show the sun at the moments just after totality began and just before it ended. The eclipse was observed at Rivabellosa, near Miranda de Ebro in Spain, where De La Rue set up his instruments. London lithographer Vincent Brooks produced the color plates, which render the faint corona, the reddish prominences and the shifting light at the edge of the sun's disk. Published in 1862, the plates show how mid-century astronomers relied on careful drawing, alongside the new art of photography, to preserve what a few minutes of darkness revealed.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 prints : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1860-1870.Chromolithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Illus. in: On the total solar eclipse of July 18th, 1860, observed at Rivabellosa, near Miranda de Ebro in Spain / by Warren De La Rue [...]. London : Printed by Taylor and Francis, 1862, Plate 7 [and] Plate 8. |
| Subjects | Eclipses--1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,501 × 3,621 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222915 |
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