Title(s)

Venus in transit

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-578-11

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘Plate XL.’
• inscription: ‘Photo taken at (...) S.M.T.’

Artist

• maker: anonymous
• after drawing by: anonymous

Dating

in or after 9-Dec-1874 - in or before 1892

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 206 mm × width 270 mm

What

• Venus (planet)
• sun as celestial body

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

• Observations of the transit of Venus, 9 December, 1874 made at stations in New South Wales (RP-F-2001-7-578)