Cloud formations
Date
1823
Creator
Frederick Christian Lewis (1779 - 1856, British) , Engraver
After
Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster (1789 - 1860, British) , Science writer
Object type
Library reference
21989
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 122 mm
width (print): 209mm
width (print): 209mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape with four figures of varied cloud formations. Figure 1 (upper right) ‘Another Cirrus figured like the Cyma of Architecture’. Figure 2 (upper left) lines of cirrostratus. Figure 3 (middle right) ‘The same cloud breaking out into cirrocumulus’. Figure 4 (lower right) cumulostratus.
Plate 4 from the book Researches about atmospheric phaenomena, by Thomas Forster 3rd edition (London, Harding, Mavor and Lepard, 1823).
The plate is numbered above ‘Plate IV.’ Inscribed below ‘Engrav’d by F.C. Lewis. Sketched by the Author.’
Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster (1789-1860) British writer on science and phrenologist. Forster was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society; his early writings were on meteorology.
Plate 4 from the book Researches about atmospheric phaenomena, by Thomas Forster 3rd edition (London, Harding, Mavor and Lepard, 1823).
The plate is numbered above ‘Plate IV.’ Inscribed below ‘Engrav’d by F.C. Lewis. Sketched by the Author.’
Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster (1789-1860) British writer on science and phrenologist. Forster was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society; his early writings were on meteorology.