Thanks Walter and Gregory for posting these awesome images!  If anyone else has "vintage" meteorite art they would like to share, I for one would be very appreciative!
 
Regards to all,
Jeannie Devon
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Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Have You Seen These?

Does anyone know of a place where I might be able to purchase prints of these two meteor-related images:
 
http:/www.branchmeteorites.com/misc/leonid1833.jpg
This is a woodcut of the meteor leonid shower of 1833
and
http:/www.branchmeteorites.com/misc/meteor7oct1868.jpg
My favorite early image of the 1833 shower is here.....
 
 
...and I'm partial to it for two reasons:  One, rather than emanating from a specific radiant-area, the meteors are drawn as if they're all traveling TOWARD it.  Perhaps some confusion on the part of the artist, when the concept of a shower-radiant was explained to him.  And the other reason....is that it happily resides in my own personal collection.  ;-)     I'm very pleased that Richard Norton thought highly enough of it to put in his new "Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites" (p. 14).
 
Gregory

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