Arcs of the distances of stars firewoman Others in the line up

Others in the line up are left to right John Aston snr

Original is oil on canvas 56x23

The pagoda which was illuminated with gas lights

View of the gateway to the Oxford Arms Inn

and a landscape beyond

Arcs of the distances of stars firewoman Others in the line upPlate 15 figure 1 from the paper 'Astronomical observations and experiments tending to investigate the local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, and to determine the extent an condition of the Milky Way', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 302 331. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. A note 'Turn over' appears in pencil, bottom right. Not signed. Royal Society