Set of eight colour lithographs of colour sketches showing the sun

Made:
1870-1872 in Cambridge
artist:
Etienne Leopold Trouvelot
Set of eight colour lithographs of colour sketches showing the sun Set of eight colour lithographs of colour sketches showing the sun Set of eight colour lithographs of colour sketches showing the sun Set of eight colour lithographs of colour sketches showing the sun Set of eight colour lithographs of colour sketches showing the sun Set of eight colour lithographs of colour sketches showing the sun
Set of eight colour lithographs of colour sketches showing the sun Set of eight colour lithographs of colour sketches showing the sun Set of eight colour lithographs of colour sketches showing the sun Set of eight colour lithographs of colour sketches showing the sun Set of eight colour lithographs of colour sketches showing the sun Set of eight colour lithographs of colour sketches showing the sun

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Set of eight colour lithographs with window mounts of colour sketches showing the sun, sunspots, prominences and two views of the corona at two separate solar eclipses. Drawn by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot & Prof Holden in 1872. Supervised by Prof. Winlock and published in the Annals of the Harvard College Observatory in 1876 with money from the Bache Fund.

Colour print of the visible surface of the Sun

Colour print of the visible surface of the Sun

1872
One of eight colour lithographs (Pl.5) with window mounts of six colour sketches showing sunspots in white light, drawn by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot in 1872. Successive views of a sun spot, March 28th, 12 20; March 30th 3 30; April 1st, ; April 2nd; April 3rd; April 4th;

Colour print of close-ups of the visible surface of the Sun

1872
One of eight colour lithographs (Pl.6) with window mounts of four colour sketches showing the Sun in white light, drawn by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot in 1871. From photographs taken with a corrected lens of 35 feet focus; Figure 1, October 5th, 12h 00m M; October 9th, 11h 45m A.M.; October 11th, 12h 15m P.M.; October 13th, 10h 50m, A.M.

Colour prints of the visible surface of the Sun

1871
One of eight colour lithographs (Pl.7) with window mounts of two colour sketches showing the Sun in white light, drawn by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot in 1870.

Colour prints of the visible surface of the Sun

1870
One of eight colour lithographs (Pl.14) with window mounts of four colour sketches showing sunspots in white light, drawn by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot in 1872. Figure 1, April 20th, 10h 00m; Figure 2, April 25th 11h 00m; Figure 3, April 26th 09h 30m; Figure 4, July 5th, 09h 30m;

Colour print of close-ups of the visible surface of the Sun, 1872.

1872
One of eight colour lithographs (Pl.17) with window mounts of four colour sketches showing the Sun in white light, drawn by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot in 1872.

Colour print of the visible surface of the Sun

1872
Colour print showing the corona around the Sun during a solar eclipse, 1870.

Colour print showing the corona around the Sun during a solar eclipse, 1870.

1870
A lithograph depicting a solar eclipse, taken from a photograph, 1869

A lithograph depicting a solar eclipse, taken from a photograph, 1869

1869

Details

Category:
Astronomy
Object Number:
1887-23
Materials:
card and paper
type:
prints, lithographs, sun, solar prominences and solar chromosphere
credit:
Normal School of Science (Astronomical Laboratory)

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