V.15 Nebula passing through Kappa Cygni Size:L: 100 x 80cm standing ankle-deep in water

standing ankle-deep in water

a cornice and a spandrel with ormamental foliage and figure

light craft in which a single paddler sits

August 1980

V.15 Nebula passing through Kappa Cygni Size:L: 100 x 80cm standing ankle-deep in waterPlate 11 figure 33 for the paper 'Observations of nebulae and clusters of stars, made at Slough, with a twenty feet reflector, between the years 1825 and 1833', by Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v. 123 (1833), pp. 359 505. The object is illustrated with a scale of 0 30 minutes to the right, not on the published plate, in which the orientation of the whole drawing was changed. Inscribed verso, in