Appearance of phenomena immediately after the beginning of totality Appearance of phenomena immediately previous to the end of totality / Vincent Brooks, lith. – Vintage 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. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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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 sky's appearance just as totality began and just before it ended. The eclipse was observed at Rivabellosa, near Miranda de Ebro in northern Spain, and De La Rue, an English astronomer and chemist, published the observations in London in 1862. Vincent Brooks made the color lithographs, which record fleeting effects at the edges of the Sun's disk and in the surrounding light. Such careful drawings were a way to preserve observations that could not be repeated, and they show how scientists of the period studied eclipses.
| 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 | 3,640 × 4,530 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222914 |
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