Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.17657

    Cirrocumulus and cirrostratus 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): 122 mm
    width (print): 209mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    Description
    Landscape with four figures of cloud formations. Figure 1 (upper left) a cirrocumulus. Figure 2 (upper right) cirrostratus in profile. Figure 3 (middle right) a mottled cirrostratus. Figure 4 (lower right) another long cirrostratus seen in profile.

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

    The plate is numbered above ‘Plate III.’ 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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