Nebulae observed through a 20-foot focal length reflecting telescope Size:S: 60 x 45cm Also showing figures and vehicles

Also showing figures and vehicles

'Patriotic-Petitions on the Convention'

In the foreground a group of fishermen lean against a moored boat

At left a chimney sweep empties soot on the crowd

Nebulae observed through a 20-foot focal length reflecting telescope Size:S: 60 x 45cm Also showing figures and vehiclesPlate 17 figures 1 15 for the paper 'Account of some observations tending to investigate the construction of the heavens', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 74 part 2 (1784), pp. 437 451. Figure 1 shows Messier's object M. 98, a spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices; figure 2 is M. 53, a globular cluster also in Coma Berenices; the remainder not identified by Herschel. This original figure in portrait format with the