Antique French Astronomical Book Plate: Gaseous Proturberances During 1860 Solar Eclipse girl with ringlets 13 1/4" long x 6

13 1/4" long x 6 5/8" tall and wide

but became famous--and more complicated--when an extraordinary series of boxes with the motif were commissioned in 1760 by or for the Qianlong emperor

with 1890 handwritten in pen on reverse

Clyfford Still

Antique French Astronomical Book Plate: Gaseous Proturberances During 1860 Solar Eclipse girl with ringlets 13 1/4" long x 6I've been stalking antique prints book pages documenting astronomical phenomenon of late, and this is one of the most beautiful I've found. It portrays "proturberances gazeuses du soleil," which I believe are also known as prominences: large, bright, gaseous features extending outward from the Sun's surface in the photosphere. These were observed, and drawn, by French astronomer Warren de la Rue during the total solar eclipse in 1860 and how beautiful