Original steel engraving of a bearded astronomer bent over a book of diagrams, dividers in hand, with a terrestrial globe and an ink stand on the table. Engraved by Robert Charles Bell after the painting by Henry Wyatt in the Vernon Gallery, for The Art Journal.
Original steel engraving of a bearded astronomer bent over a book of diagrams, dividers in hand, with a terrestrial globe and an ink stand on the table. Engraved by Robert Charles Bell after the painting by Henry Wyatt in the Vernon Gallery, for The Art Journal.
Medium: Steel engraving
Artist / after: Henry Wyatt (1794-1840)
Engraver / lithographer: Robert Charles Bell (1806-1872)
Date: circa 1851
Source: The Art Journal, London; after the painting in the Vernon Gallery, today in the Tate
Dimensions: 9.3 x 12.6 in (23.5 x 32 cm)
Condition: Good.