Three-quarter length painting of flamsteed, seated on a high-backed green upholstered chair, with a covered table on his left. He wears a black robe with white, squared collar. The sitter holds his right hand to his chest; the left rests on a brown leather-bound volume of his own stellar observations [eventually published posthumously as atlas coelestis, 1729] on the tabletop. An architectural pillar is visible behind. Object Type: painting. Date: 1712. Dimensions: height: 124.5 cm (49 in); width: 101.6 cm (40 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Royal Society. John Flamsteed (Gemälde)
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