M.51 the Whirlpool Galaxy Size:XL: 90 x 90cm Covent Garden

Covent Garden

Pongo pygmaeus shown from the front

Several figures inhabit the scene including (lower right) an artist in the act of drawing

Cook freom a Miniature by W

Inscribed 'Plate XXIV

M.51 the Whirlpool Galaxy Size:XL: 90 x 90cm Covent GardenPlate 10 figure 25 for the paper "Observations of nebulae and clusters of stars, made at Slough, with a twenty feet reflector, between the years 1825 and 1833", by Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v. 123 (1833), pp. 359 505. Inscribed verso, in pencil, "Messier 51" with right ascension and North polar distance. Original: pencil on board. 1833