The formation of the planets
Date
1799
Creator
Blanchard (French) , Engraver
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 202mm
width (print): 119mm
width (print): 119mm
Subject
Description
Allegorical scene showing a Creator accompanied by cherubim with the Sun and solar system. The planets are shown in their orbits, surrounded by clouds.
Plate (not numbered) from the book Histoire naturelle, généralle et particuliére…Nouvelle edition, by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and C.S. Sonnini, volume 1 (Paris 1799). The illustration is bound between p.160 and p.161.
Inscribed above: ‘Tom. 1. P.163.’ Inscribed below: ‘Blanchard Sc.’
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist and man of science, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1740.
Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), French naturalist.
Plate (not numbered) from the book Histoire naturelle, généralle et particuliére…Nouvelle edition, by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and C.S. Sonnini, volume 1 (Paris 1799). The illustration is bound between p.160 and p.161.
Inscribed above: ‘Tom. 1. P.163.’ Inscribed below: ‘Blanchard Sc.’
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist and man of science, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1740.
Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), French naturalist.
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