Donati's Comet, 2 October 1858 Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm 'An Isthmian Game'

'An Isthmian Game'

A man is alighting from the rear

Original is oil on panel 35

on the Old Kent Road

Inscribed below: 'GEORGIUS EDWARDS R

Donati's Comet, 2 October 1858 Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm 'An Isthmian Game'Astronomical 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,