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Product details
Small art print
Product size: 40 × 30 cm
Image size: 32 × 18 cm
Product size: 40 × 30 cm
Image size: 32 × 18 cm
Description
Cloud study by Luke Howard, c1803-1811: Cirrus in parallel receding lines; dome of the sky effect at horizon vanishing point. Pink and grey wash, 13x23cm. Inscribed in pencil verso: Cirrus viewed in parallel receding lines. On loan from the Royal Meteorological Society Ordering and classification were important features of Enlightenment science. Fascinated since childhood by the weather, and clouds in particular, Luke Howard classified and named different cloud types between 1803 and 1811, providing sketches for these later illustrations. His work has influenced many of the landscape painters of the Romantic era, including Turner and Constable. Although he was a pharmacist, his contribution to the developing science of meteorology led to Howard being made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821. His terminology and symbols are still largely used to describe clouds today.
Cloud study by Luke Howard, c1803-1811: Cirrus in parallel receding lines; dome of the sky effect at horizon vanishing
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