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Charles Piazzi Smyth: Daylight View over Table Bay Showing the Great Comet of 1843  wikidata:Q24025050 reasonator:Q24025050
Artist
Charles Piazzi Smyth  (1817–1900) wikidata:Q1065789 s:en:Author:Charles Piazzi Smyth q:pl:Charles Piazzi Smyth
 
Charles Piazzi Smyth
Description British astronomer, anthropologist, painter, photographer, writer and egyptologist
Date of birth/death 3 January 1817 Edit this at Wikidata 21 February 1900 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Naples Ripon
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Edinburgh Edit this at Wikidata
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Title
Daylight View over Table Bay Showing the Great Comet of 1843 Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Daylight View over Table Bay Showing the Great Comet of 1843 Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Daylight View over Table Bay Showing the Great Comet of 1843 Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lfr,"Vue de jour de la baie de la Table avec la Grand Comète de 1843"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre astronomical art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: An eyewitness account of the Great Comet of 1843 painted by the astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth.
Date 1843 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 90.7 cm (35.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 61 cm (24 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+90.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+61U174728
institution QS:P195,Q7374509
Current location
Royal Museums Greenwich
Accession number
BHC4147 (Royal Museums Greenwich) Edit this at Wikidata
References
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/15560.html

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