Phases of Venus Antique Color Lithograph from Austrian Journal of Popular Astronomy antique needlework 10 3/4" tall x 6

10 3/4" tall x 6 5/8" wide

I really love these as three-dimensional paintings

I have not touched the brass on this piece but think it would shine up some if desired

and porcupine quills popping out everywhere--at an antique shop in Newburyport

Based on similar examples I have seen

Phases of Venus Antique Color Lithograph from Austrian Journal of Popular Astronomy antique needlework 10 3/4" tall x 6I've been stalking antique prints book pages documenting astronomical phenomenon of late, which I find super beautiful. This one portrays the phases of Venus as observed between 1833 and 1836 by astronomists Wilhelm Wolff Beer (Prussian) and Johann Heinrich Mdler (German). It is an antique book page from a volume of Zeitschrift fr populre Astronomi (Journal of Popular Astronomy) published by Lith Anst, Graz, c. 1868. Some light staining to the paper