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LicenseViewing the Transit of Venus
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print, engraving. Viewing the Transit of Venus. Published by Robert Sayer and Co., Fleet Street, London. Dec. 16th 1793. 20cm x 25cm. in frame, 31x35cm. A play on the sexual references of astronomy: a gentleman looks through his glasses at a young woman as she leans forward showing her cleavage to use the telescope; a satyr in the garden has an emulatory leer [BM8410]
