View overlooking the Royal Observatory, Greenwich mb-code 1645942 1st May 1982

1st May 1982

blue: the edge of the shoulders deep red

exaggeratedly attenuated below the waist

as per the image's caption

View overlooking the Royal Observatory, Greenwich mb-code 1645942 1st May 1982Landscape from behind the old Royal Observatory building (now known as Flamsteed House) at Greenwich, which appears on the right of the print. The observatory's 60 foot refracting telescope is visible, mounted on a flagpole. Downhill from the observatory is Greenwich and the river Thames. Several figures inhabit the scene including (lower right) an artist in the act of drawing. Plate 7 from Ichnographia speculae Regiae Grenovici exquisite facta