Donati's Comet, 2 October 1858 Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm Original is oil on panel

Original is oil on panel 35

exposing the teeth

'An Isthmian Game'

A man is alighting from the rear

Inscribed below: 'GEORGIUS EDWARDS R

Donati's Comet, 2 October 1858 Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm Original is oil on panelAstronomical study of the head of Donati's Comet observed through the 15 inch refracting telescope at the observatory of Harvard College. Donati's Comet was one of the brightest to be seen in the 19th century and was the first to be photographed (by G. P. Bond and others). It was discovered by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati (1826 1873). Plate 1 from the monograph An account of Donati's Comet of 1858, by George P. Bond (Cambridge,