M.51 the Whirlpool Galaxy Size:XL: 90 x 90cm Cook freom a Miniature by

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Fashion designer Mary Quant seen here having the finishing touches made to her new hairstyle by Vidal Sassoon 12th November 1964

Several figures inhabit the scene including (lower right) an artist in the act of drawing

Inscribed 'Plate XXIV

M.51 the Whirlpool Galaxy Size:XL: 90 x 90cm Cook freom a Miniature byPlate 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