Clouds
Date
1803
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
After
Luke Howard (1772 - 1864, British) , Chemist
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 128mm
width (print): 128mm
Subject
Description
Three cloud studies: figure a) cirrus; figure b) regular cumulus; and figure c) a stratus occupying a valley at sunset.
Plate 6, illustrating the paper: ‘On the modifications of clouds, and on the principles of their production, suspension, and destruction; being the substance of an essay read before the Askesian Society in the Session 1802-3. By Luke Howard.’ The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.16, (1803) pp.97-107 and pp.344-357; and v.17 (1803-1804) pp.1-6.
Inscribed above [intended for volume 17?]: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.VI. Vol.XVII.’. Inscribed below: ‘L. Howard delt. Lowry sculp. 64’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
Luke Howard (1772-1864), British manufacturing chemist and meteorologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821.
Plate 6, illustrating the paper: ‘On the modifications of clouds, and on the principles of their production, suspension, and destruction; being the substance of an essay read before the Askesian Society in the Session 1802-3. By Luke Howard.’ The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.16, (1803) pp.97-107 and pp.344-357; and v.17 (1803-1804) pp.1-6.
Inscribed above [intended for volume 17?]: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.VI. Vol.XVII.’. Inscribed below: ‘L. Howard delt. Lowry sculp. 64’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
Luke Howard (1772-1864), British manufacturing chemist and meteorologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821.
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