'Black drop' effect during the 1769 Transit of Venus Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 'Lamentation over Christ'

'Lamentation over Christ'

View of the funeral car of the Duke of Wellington

dressed in ermine with a lace neck cloth and shoulder length wig

Corporation of Windsor

European and British Grand Prix in a Delage 15-S8

'Black drop' effect during the 1769 Transit of Venus Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 'Lamentation over Christ'Sketch showing the planet Venus at ingress on its passage across the face of the Sun. Detail from a letter by Samuel Horsley, giving an account of the Transit of Venus observed at Oxford, England, using an 18 inch reflecting telescope. The illustration appeared as plate 8 of the published paper 'Venus observed upon the Sun at Oxford, June 3, 1769', by Samuel Horsley, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 59 (1769) pp. 183 188.