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Observation notes on the colour of the bands on Jupiter made by John Willis, undated. The drawing shows brown/cream pencilled into stripes of coloured bands. Willis has noted: "bluish / greyish / ruddy / yellowish / coppery or ruddy / white I" and on the reverse the colours run back through to bluish. One of 275 pencil, ink and colour wash observations of the Sun and Jupiter made by Willis in Folkestone between 1879 and 1906.
Title
Observation of the coloured bands of Jupiter
Date
1879 - 1906
Medium
paper, pencil, ink, col. wash
Accession number
2001-769/250
Acquisition method
Sotheby's (Olympia)
Work type
Drawing
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Green/bold yellow observation of the Sun, 8 April 1904 Science Museum -
Black/yellow observation of the Sun, 1 April 1904 Science Museum
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Turquoise/yellow observation of the Sun, 23 April 1904 Science Museum
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Black/bold yellow observation of the Sun, 28 March 1904 Science Museum
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Black/cream observation of the Sun, 9 August 1904 Science Museum
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Blue-green/yellow observation of the Sun, 17 May 1904 Science Museum
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Turquoise/yellow observation of the Sun, 3 June 1904 Science Museum
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