V.19 nebula Size:XS: 30 x 30cm holding a long scroll

holding a long scroll

Original: etching

The allegorical figure of Time is a satire concerning Hogarth's belief that art connoisseurs only valued paintings for their age

In the distance the fleet is engaged and smoke can be seen as the battery is destroyed

V.19 nebula Size:XS: 30 x 30cm holding a long scrollPlate 10 figure 28 for the paper "Observations of nebulae and clusters of stars, made at Slough, with a twenty feet reflector, between the years 1825 and 1833", by Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v. 123 (1833), pp. 359 505. Study of the V. 19 nebula, galaxy NGC 891 in the constellation of Andromeda, viewed edge on. Inscribed verso, in pencil, "V. 19" with right ascension and North polar distance.