Credit: ©The Royal Society 2018
    Image number: RS.13543

    Coloured sky, evening twilight

    Date
    1888
    Creator - Organisation
    After
    Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche (1840 - 1913, German) , Naturalist
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN46652
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 136mm
    width (print): 192mm
    height (card support): 192mm
    width (card support): 275mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    Description
    Study of a multi-coloured sunset twilight, observed at the end of the rainy season in Loango, at the mouth of the Congo, Africa, 13 April 1876.

    Plate 6 from the book Untersuchungen uber Dämmerungserscheinungen zur Erklarung der nach dem Krakatau-ausbruch beobachteten atmospharisch-optischen Storung, by J. Kiessling (Hamburg, Leopold Voss, 1888).

    The plate is inscribed above: ‘Kiessling, Dämmerung-Untersuchungen. Taf. VI.’ Inscribed below: ‘MEHRFARBIGER DAMMERUNGSSCHEIN AM SCHLUSS DER REGENZEIT (ABEND). [Multicoloured twilight glow at the end of the rainy season, evening]. Pechuel-Loesche. Loangokuste, Loangobai, April 13. 1876. Chromolithographie von Leo Kempner & Co. in Hamburg. Verlag von Leopold Voss in Hamburg (und Leipzig).’

    Karl Johann Kiessling (1839-1905) German physicist, replicated twilight glow phenomena in the laboratory.

    Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche (1840-1913) German naturalist and watercolour painter who travelled widely, including on expeditions to the Congo, Africa.
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