A woman personifying astronomy. Engraving by J. Caldwall after W. Collins after R. Willett.
- Willett, Ralph, 1719-1795.
- Date:
- [1785]
- Reference:
- 744102i
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She points with her right hand up to a star and with her left hand down to an armillary sphere
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[London] : [J. Nichols], [1785]
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1 print : engraving ; platemark 29 x 45.3 cm
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Astronomy. Ralph Willett inv. Wm. Collins fec. James Caldwall sculp.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 744102i
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Probably one of the designs that Willett had executed in plaster by the modeller William Collins on the coved ceiling of his library, in which Willett, assisted by Joseph Banks and James Athenian Stuart, traced the rise and progress of knowledge. In 1785 Willett published a description of the room in a folio with twenty-five engravings
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