Title(s)

Melkweg in het gebied van het sterrenbeeld boogschutter
Region of the Milky Way in Sagittarius (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1094-7

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘Plate V.’
• inscription: ‘Showing a double black aperture.’

Artist

• Edward Emerson Barnard (mentioned on object)
• anonymous

Dating

c. 1890 - in or before 1893

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 148 mm × width 107 mm

What

• Milky Way

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)