M.51 the Whirlpool Galaxy Size:XL: 90 x 90cm Covent Garden

Covent Garden

The Royal Society's copy was donated by the author on 20 January 1791

In 1957 BMC commissioned Alec Issigonis to design a new small car

Old Bond Street

A perspective view of a horse-gin operated pile driver

M.51 the Whirlpool Galaxy Size:XL: 90 x 90cm Covent GardenPlate 10 figure 25 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. Inscribed verso, in pencil, "Messier 51" with right ascension and North polar distance. Original: pencil on board. 1833