Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.17656

    Cumulus and stratus clouds

    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): 122mm
    width (print): 209mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    Description
    Landscape with four figures of cloud formations. Figure 1 (upper left) a cirrus changing to cirrocumulus. Figure 2 (upper right) cymoid cirrostratus. Figure 3 (middle right) nascent cumulus. Figure 4 (lower right) a fine thin status.

    Plate 2 from the book Researches about atmospheric phaenomena, by Thomas Forster 3rd edition (London, Harding, Mavor and Lepard, 1823).

    The plate is numbered above ‘Plate II.’ 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.
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