'Sections through Arthur's Seat'
Date
1856
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Dimensions
height (painting): 329mm
width (painting): 235mm
width (painting): 235mm
Subject
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Description
A geological study in ink and watercolour of three sections through Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland, showing the distribution of trap rock and sandstone through these sections.
Plate 33 from Henry James' paper titled 'On the deflection of the plumb-line at Arthur's Seat, and the mean specific gravity of the earth', published in volume 146 of Philosophical Transactions. The published plate appeared in black and white.
Inscribed with title, key, and a table of specific gravities of the rocks in Arthur's Seat, including trap tuff, trap conglomerate, amygdaloidal trap, basalt, porphyry, greenstone, and sandstone. Not signed.
Henry James (1803-1877) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1848.
Plate 33 from Henry James' paper titled 'On the deflection of the plumb-line at Arthur's Seat, and the mean specific gravity of the earth', published in volume 146 of Philosophical Transactions. The published plate appeared in black and white.
Inscribed with title, key, and a table of specific gravities of the rocks in Arthur's Seat, including trap tuff, trap conglomerate, amygdaloidal trap, basalt, porphyry, greenstone, and sandstone. Not signed.
Henry James (1803-1877) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1848.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Related fellows
Henry James (1803 - 1877, British) , Knight Director General of the Ordnance Survey, Surveyor
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