Title

Sun Setting seen from the Observatory at Oxford, 20 December 1784. Artist: John Baptist Malchair.

Caption

Sun Setting seen from the Observatory at Oxford, 20 December 1784. The place of the Sun's Setting as seen from Professor Hornsby's Dining Parlour at the Observatory at Oxford. Dec. 20. 1784'. Dimensions: height x width: sheet 19 x 27.8 cm//Oxford, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Date

1784

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Reference

HRM19E77_348

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

62,7Mb (4,7Mb) / 18,9in x 12,9in / 5676 x 3859 (300dpi)

Keywords

sunset exterior outdoors sky countryside hill England field bright sunlight sun fence science evening dusk romantic solar system astronomy British geography color colour observatory sunlit farmland location century Oxford Oxfordshire Britain outside time of day romanticism 18th century Eighteenth Century geographical feature TGN copyspace watercolour pencil landscape Romantic Era Ashmolean Museum John Baptist Malchair Malchair John Baptist John Malchair pencil watercolour landscape