Landscape with 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): 128mm
width (print): 210mm
width (print): 210mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Coastal scene showing a castle, with cumulus and nimbus clouds overhead.
The accompanying text states that: ‘A distant shower coming from behind an elevated point of land, in which are represented the superior sheet stretching in different parts windward, and cumuli advancing towards and entering the mass, the whole of which constitutes the nimbus.’.
Plate 8, 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.VIII. Vol.XVII.’. Inscribed below: ‘L. Howard delt. Lowry direxit. 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.
The accompanying text states that: ‘A distant shower coming from behind an elevated point of land, in which are represented the superior sheet stretching in different parts windward, and cumuli advancing towards and entering the mass, the whole of which constitutes the nimbus.’.
Plate 8, 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.VIII. Vol.XVII.’. Inscribed below: ‘L. Howard delt. Lowry direxit. 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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