
Template for drawing the outline of Jupiter
- Made:
- 1879-1906 in Folkestone
Card disc with dark blue wash/cream and blue ink lines across made by John Willis, undated. It's inscribed "... Jupiter ... the Earth" [relative proportions] This is a template disc for drawing the outline of Jupiter. It's not round but flattened; the circle is ellipse. One of 275 pencil, ink and colour wash observations of the Sun and Jupiter made by Willis in Folkestone between 1879 and 1906.
Details
- Category:
- Art
- Object Number:
- 2001-769/254
- Materials:
- paper, pencil, ink, col. wash
- Measurements:
-
overall: 59 mm,
- type:
- drawing
- credit:
- Sotheby's (Olympia)