The Sun Frame:White In reality

In reality

on 31 January

taken from The Moon considered as a planet

a fan made of ostrich feathers in her left hand

miniature work of art set in an elegant gilt frame

The Sun Frame:White In realityA coloured cotton wall hanging, showing the sun, with sunspots, and along the bottom the known planets (to Neptune, discovered in 1846), each indicated by the letter with which its name begins. At each corner is a brass eyelet from which to hang the piece. This is one of nine wall hangings now in the National Maritime Museum, all on astronomical themes, which were produced by the Working Men's Educational Union. They were printed lithographically on