Architecture Is Represented In A Female Form, Sitting Upon The Pedestal Of A Pillar, With Various Tools And Instruments Around Her, Carefully Inspecting The Accuracy And Ingenuity Of A Design Which Lies In Her Lap. At Her Side the Figure of Reason, With a Helmet on Her Head, Pallas’s Shield in Her Left Hand, And Mercury’s Caduceus in Her Right. Astronomy Is Personified By A Beautiful Female As Urania, With A Silver Crescent, Clothed In An Azure Mantle Spangled With Stars; Her Eyes Intensely Fixed Upon The Starry Firmament; With An Astrolabe In Her Right Hand, And A Scroll, Containing Astronomi
Architecture Is Represented In A Female Form, Sitting Upon The Pedestal Of A Pillar, With Various Tools And Instruments Around Her, Carefully Inspecting The Accuracy And Ingenuity Of A Design Which Lies In Her Lap. At Her Side the Figure of Reason, With a Helmet on Her Head, Pallas’s Shield in Her Left Hand, And Mercury’s Caduceus in Her Right. Astronomy Is Personified By A Beautiful Female As Urania, With A Silver Crescent, Clothed In An Azure Mantle Spangled With Stars; Her Eyes Intensely Fixed Upon The Starry Firmament; With An Astrolabe In Her Right Hand, And A Scroll, Containing Astronomical Figures, In Her Left. Copperplate engraving From the Encyclopaedia Londinensis or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature; Volume II; Edited by Wilkes, John. Published in London in 1810
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Location: London, England
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