M.57 the Ring Nebula Size:L: 70 x 70cm (his future home - still

(his future home - still under construction)

with a damaged building [farmhouse

The illustration is inscribed below: 'Testudo imbricata Linn

Each man has a sack full of funds on the floor at his feet

volume 1 (Copenhagen

M.57 the Ring Nebula Size:L: 70 x 70cm (his future home - stillPlate 10 figure 29 for the paper 'Observations of nebulae and clusters of stars, made at Slough, with a twenty feet reflector, between the years 1825 and 1833', by Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v. 123 (1833), pp. 359 505. The object is illustrated with a scale of 0 2 minutes below, not on the published plate. Inscribed verso, in pencil, '57 Mess[ier]. Between Beta and Gamma Lyrae.' With right