Title(s)

Overzicht van het verloop van de zonsondergang gezien vanaf Mount Hamilton te Californië
Plate XVI. Sunsets at Mount Hamilton (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-972-11

Inscriptions / marks

• date: ‘1893/ Aug. 12/ Aug. 13/ Aug. 14/ Aug. 15/ Aug. 16/ Aug. 17’

Artist

• photographer: Allen Lysander Colton (mentioned on object)
• anonymous

Place

Lick Observatory

Dating

1893 - 1895

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 182 mm × width 82 mm

What

• sunset
• astronomy (and cosmography)

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)