Title: the Astronomer.
Artist: after Henry Wyatt (British, 1794 – 1840)
Engraver: Robert Charles Bell (Scottish, 1806 – 1872).
Description: antique steel engraving showing a bearded man with a bald crown, sitting at a table and peering at a book of diagrams, holding a pair of dividers with his right hand, the elbow propped on the book, a globe and ink-stand to left; with scratched artists' names.
Published as an illustration to 'The Art Journal'.in 1851, possibly also as an independent print. The painting was exhibited in 1832 and is now at Tate.
Production date: c.1851.
Condition: good.