'Black drop' effect during the 1769 Transit of Venus Size:XS: 30 x 20cm Alex Dyer and Mark Bright

Alex Dyer and Mark Bright on the pitch at Wembley Stadium ahead of their showdown with Manchester United in the FA Cup Final

The town 'consisted of about twelve or fourteen hovels

' The print is embossed 'Charles Spencer

Taken from the Stationers Almanack for the year 1819

'Black drop' effect during the 1769 Transit of Venus Size:XS: 30 x 20cm Alex Dyer and Mark BrightSketch showing the planet Venus at ingress on its passage across the face of the Sun. Detail from a letter by Samuel Horsley, giving an account of the Transit of Venus observed at Oxford, England, using an 18 inch reflecting telescope. The illustration appeared as plate 8 of the published paper 'Venus observed upon the Sun at Oxford, June 3, 1769', by Samuel Horsley, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 59 (1769) pp. 183 188.