Unidentified nebula ["Nova"] Thomas Bruce Elgin Hampton Court scenery can be

Hampton Court scenery can be seen in the background

Found in the collection of the Malmö Konstmuseum

and a sword in the other

He was one of the most successful drivers of the Silver Arrows in the pre-war era

Unidentified nebula ["Nova"] Thomas Bruce Elgin Hampton Court scenery can bePlate 10 figure 30 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. The object is inscribed verso "Nova". Herschel's paper explains this term: "When no previous version of a nebular or cluster could be found in the writings of former observers,