Title(s)

Vier afbeeldingen van een komeet
The great comet of September 1882 (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1094-4

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘Plate II’
• inscription: ‘Photographed at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope.’

Artist

• photographer: William Henry Finlay (mentioned on object)
• anonymous

Place

Cape of Good Hope

Dating

c. Sep-1882

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 220 mm × width 140 mm

What

• comet

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• A popular history of astronomy during the nineteenth century (RP-F-2001-7-1094)