print
- Museum number
- Q,3.76.+
- Title
- Object: Dr Herschel
- Description
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Bust portrait of William Herschel, nearly in profile to the right, in cloak, moles on cheek and forehead, in wintery forest, crescent and stars in the sky, representing the constellation Gemini in which he first observed the planet Uranus; after Rehberg; open-letter, touched proof. 1814
Stipple with engraving, printed on chine collé, touched with graphite
- Production date
- 1814
- Dimensions
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Height: 315 millimetres
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Width: 226 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Republished in 'Foreign Portraits' (Volume 5, November 1st, 1835).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Discovery of Uranus 1781
- Acquisition date
- 1815
- Acquisition notes
- Inscribed in pencil in lower margin and on verso: "Present from Mr Rehberg". One of three listed prints given by Rehberg on 11 February 1815 and recorded in the 'Book of Donations 1756-1823'. For another impression also given by Rehberg, see Ee,2.104.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Q,3.76.+
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 2006,U.1334