Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11952

    ‘Twilight at sea off the coast of Portugal’

    Date
    ca. 1890s
    After
    Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819 - 1900, British) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 178mm
    width (print): 261mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    space
       > Solar system
          > Sun
    space
       > star
    Description
    Marine landscape showing the sun setting over the sea off the coast of Portugal, with two stars visible in the sky.

    Inscribed ‘TWILIGHT AT SEA OFF THE COAST OF PORTUGAL (LAT. 40° 29’ N. LONG. 10° 0’ W.) HALF AN HOUR AFTER SUNSET AND TOO SOON FOR A VIEW OF THE ZODIACAL LIGHT, MARCH 1, 1872. (AFTER PLATE BY C. PIAZZI SMYTH IN VOL.XIV OF “ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE IN THE ROAYL OBSERVATORY EDINBURGH”.)’

    Plate from Our Earth and Its Story, by Robert Brown (Cassell, c.1890s)
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > Portugal
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