Title(s)

Waiting for the transit of Venus, Eden

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-578-7

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘Plate XXXVI.’

Artist

• maker: anonymous

Place

Eden

Dating

c. 1882 - in or before 1892

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 128 mm × width 196 mm

What

• tent-camp
• astronomy (and cosmography)
• astronomical phenomena

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)