Portrait of John Flamsteed (1646-1719) mb-artist Readers_Wives The diamond-shaped photograph is mounted

The diamond-shaped photograph is mounted on a cabinet card giving Christmas greetings

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winner of the Indianapolis 500

Portrait of John Flamsteed (1646-1719) mb-artist Readers_Wives The diamond-shaped photograph is mountedThree quarter length painting of Flamsteed, seated on a high backed green upholstered chair, with a covered table on his left. He wears a black robe with white, squared collar. The sitter holds his right hand to his chest; the left rests on a brown leather bound volume of his own stellar observations [eventually published posthumously as Atlas Coelestis, 1729] on the tabletop. An architectural pillar is visible behind. John Flamsteed was elected a