Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10656
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    Waterspouts

    Date
    1840
    Creator
    Paul Legrand (French) , Printmaker
    After
    Antoine Germain Bevalet (1779 - 1850, French) , Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    27139
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 281mm
    width (print): 203mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > weather
    Description
    Study of waterspouts at sea, intended to illustrate the attractive force of electrical clouds (eg thunderclouds).

    Plate 3 figure 21 from Traité de l électricité et du magnétisme...Atlas... by Antoine César Becquerel (Paris, 1840).

    The plate is headed “TROMBES” and inscribed “Dessine par M.Bevalet. Gravé
    par Paul Legrand.”

    Antoine César Becquerel (1788-1878) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1837.
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