- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- John Russell
- Provenance
- Presented by the Radcliffe Trustees. From the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford.
- Primary inscriptions
- Recto : 'Pubd. by I. Russell June 14th. 1797. Newman Street London.'
- Other inscriptions
- Verso: 'Radcliffe Observatory OXFORD' within a circle Stamp in purple ink SEE NOTE
- Physical material
- Paper
- Object type
- Globe
- Inventory No
- 11665
Description
Set of uncut printed gores and polar caps of the moon. One pair of gores /polar caps to each sheet, making a total of 7 sheets in the set. Each gore and polar cap is numbered.
Aquatint and etching on wove paper. Radcliffe Observatory stamp on reverse.
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