Title(s)

Large equatorial, Sydney Observatory. Object glass 11 1/2 inches

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-578-3

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘Plate XXXII.’

Artist

• maker: anonymous

Place

Observatorium van Sydney

Dating

c. 1882 - in or before 1892

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 205 mm × width 148 mm

What

• observatory (~ astronomy)
• optical instruments

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)