The Summer Sky Atlas — A Victorian Map of Celestial Wanderings framed minimalist The Celestial Machinery — Reynolds'

The Celestial Machinery — Reynolds' Transparent Solar System is exactly what its name promises: Reynolds peeled back the firmament like the lid of a music box

with the keeper's hexagonal cottage perched mid-air like a lantern in a cage

This print is drawn from an original painting of the Headless Horseman — Washington Irving's immortal figure from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

and architectural lithographers who documented Manhattan and the boroughs through the Gilded Age

The Summer Sky Atlas — A Victorian Map of Celestial Wanderings framed minimalist The Celestial Machinery — Reynolds'The Summer Sky Atlas a Victorian Map of Celestial Wanderings charts the warm month constellations as a 19th century stargazer would have traced them Lyra, Cygnus, and Aquila wheeling across the firmament in inked latitudes. It is less a map than an ephemeris of longing, the summer heavens pinned like specimens to the page. About the Source Bella Frye sources celestial prints from 19th century astronomical atlases and selenographic studies the era when