Title(s)

Zonsverduistering op 22 december 1889

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-959-1

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Frontispiece. - Silver print of the Total Solar Eclipse of December,/ 1889, from negatives by S. W. Burnham.’

Artist

• Sherburne Wesley Burnham (mentioned on object)

Place

Lick Observatory

Dating

22-Dec-1889

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 79 mm × width 57 mm

What

• total solar eclipse with corona

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

• Reports on the observations of the total eclipse of the sun, December 21-22, 1889 and of the total eclipse of the moon, July 22, 1888 : to which is added a catalogue of the library (RP-F-2001-7-959)