M.97 the Owl Nebula Size:XL: 100 x 100cm The Garden of Earthly Delights

The Garden of Earthly Delights (Central panel)

View of Barnard's Castle with boats on the River Thames

The decorative border incorporates insurance company seals and firemen carrying buckets

reads: 'Sir I

and a series of experiments'

M.97 the Owl Nebula Size:XL: 100 x 100cm The Garden of Earthly DelightsPlate 10 figure 32 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, "Mess[ier] 97 ?". The printed version has no query attached. With right ascension, North polar distance, sweep number and diameter of 2. 5 minutes.