Title(s)

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

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-972-12

Inscriptions / marks

• date: ‘1893/ Aug. 18/ Aug. 20/ Aug. 25/ Aug. 26/ Aug. 27/ Aug. 28’

Artist

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

Place

Lick Observatory

Dating

1893 - 1895

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 178 mm × width 83 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)