Title(s)

Reproductie van een tekening van een vallende meteoriet door Chauncey M. St. John
Plate I. The meteor of July 27, 1894 (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-972-1

Inscriptions / marks

• date: ‘1894, July 27’

Artist

• maker: anonymous
• after drawing by: Chauncey M. St. John (mentioned on object)

Dating

1894 - 1895

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 158 mm × width 82 mm

What

• meteor
• dale, valley
• astronomy (and cosmography)

Where

• Californië

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

• Meteors and sunsets observed by the astronomers of the Lick observatory in 1893, 1894 and 1895 (RP-F-2001-7-972)