Title(s)

Komeet, mogelijk de Swift-Tuttle
Photographs of Swift's comet (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1094-5

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘Plate III’
• inscription: ‘No. 1. Taken April 4, 1892. Exposure 1h. No. 2. Taken April 6, 1892. Exposure 1h. 5m.’

Artist

• photographer: Edward Emerson Barnard (mentioned on object)
• anonymous

Dating

4-Apr-1892 - 6-Apr-1892

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)