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Best of all that great black arrow
but became famous--and more complicated--when an extraordinary series of boxes with the motif were commissioned in 1760 by or for the Qianlong emperor
10 5/8" tall x 10 1/4" widest
Clyfford Still
with 1890 handwritten in pen on reverse
Antique French Astronomical Book Plate: Gaseous Proturberances During 1860 Solar Eclipse girl with ringlets Best of all that greatI've been stalking antique prints book pages documenting astronomical phenomenon of late, and this is one of the most beautiful I've found. It portrays "proturberances gazeuses du soleil," which I believe are also known as prominences: large, bright, gaseous features extending outward from the Sun's surface in the photosphere. These were observed, and drawn, by French astronomer Warren de la Rue during the total solar eclipse in 1860 and how beautiful
