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Hand-coloured print of the sun with sunspots, planet size comparisons, and vignettes of eclipses, transits and the midnight s

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The Sun and solar phenomena, John Emslie (1851). Via artnap.com

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A hand-coloured engraved plate titled The Sun and Solar Phenomena, attributed to John Emslie and dated 1851. A large central disc of the sun shows dark sunspots, flanked by a column comparing the apparent size of Mercury through Neptune and a column of sunspot shapes as they cross the disc. Small vignettes depict day and night, summer and winter rays, a transit of Mercury over ships at sea, the midnight sun with polar bears, and an annular eclipse over a rural cottage.