Total Eclipse of the Sun Dec.r 22, 1870. Engraved from a Drawing made from the Original Negative Taken at Syracuse by Mr. Brothers. Negative No.5, exposed for 8 seconds just before the end of totality.
W.H. Wesley del. D.J. Pound, sculp. Mezzotint on chine collé. 305 x 240mm (12 x 9½"), with large margins. Mint. The corona of the sun, as viewed from a telescope during a total solar eclipse; framed by a circular scale of degrees. The pearly and ghostly light is only seen during the brief period of totality when the Moon blocks the dazzlingly bright surface of the Sun. From the Royal Astronomical Society's 'Memoirs'. Ex Norman Blackburn Collection.
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