Phases of Venus Antique Color Lithograph from Austrian Journal of Popular Astronomy Solid Stem Center Augur Bits and energetically stippled all over

and energetically stippled all over spots

but I could not resist this couple

and the little bird delivers your smoke in its little beak

Jane Saunders in Oneonta

Each 2 1/2" long x 5/8" wide x 1/8" deep

Phases of Venus Antique Color Lithograph from Austrian Journal of Popular Astronomy Solid Stem Center Augur Bits and energetically stippled all overI've been stalking antique prints book pages documenting astronomical phenomenon of late, which I find super beautiful. This one portrays the phases of Venus as observed between 1833 and 1836 by astronomists Wilhelm Wolff Beer (Prussian) and Johann Heinrich Mdler (German). It is an antique book page from a volume of Zeitschrift fr populre Astronomi (Journal of Popular Astronomy) published by Lith Anst, Graz, c. 1868. Some light staining to the paper