Portrait of John Flamsteed (1646-1719) mb-artist Readers_Wives 1st April 1980

1st April 1980

There is a bunch of faggots tied to the front of the pyre and the pope is balanced precariously on some barrels of gunpowder

or in the Upper House

winner of the Indianapolis 500

The diamond-shaped photograph is mounted on a cabinet card giving Christmas greetings

Portrait of John Flamsteed (1646-1719) mb-artist Readers_Wives 1st April 1980Three quarter length painting of Flamsteed, seated on a high backed green upholstered chair, with a covered table on his left. He wears a black robe with white, squared collar. The sitter holds his right hand to his chest; the left rests on a brown leather bound volume of his own stellar observations [eventually published posthumously as Atlas Coelestis, 1729] on the tabletop. An architectural pillar is visible behind. John Flamsteed was elected a