Skip to content
History of Science Museum
Hire the Museum for filming

Painting (Oil on Canvas, Framed) of Tycho Brahe, 17th Century

Inventory Number 18236

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.18236

Subject
Paintings
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by the Bodleian Library in 2001. Presented to the University of Oxford by James Hodgson, associate of the first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed (1646-1719).
Object type
Oil painting
Dimensions
Height: 1000mm Width: 750mm
Inventory No
18236

Description

Anonymous 17th-century copy. Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), built and equipped a celebrated observatory on the island of Hven in the Danish sound.

Related Items

More related items