Venus at first internal contact with the Sun Size:Large: 7 x 5in Having just lost his wife's

Having just lost his wife's fortune

Highgate Archway viaduct

Photo-call on set

Children on a horse drawn sleigh

'The Rival Curtii'

Venus at first internal contact with the Sun Size:Large: 7 x 5in Having just lost his wife'sView taken at Mageroya, Nordkapp, Norway, during the 1769 Transit of Venus. Inscribed 'The appearance of Venus on the Sun at Magger & near the 1st internal contact by Wiliam Bayley.' Published as plate 13 for the paper 'Astronomical observations, made at the North Cape, for the Royal Society', by William Bayly, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 59, 1769, pp. 262 272. William Bayly was employed as an assistant by Nevil Maskelyne at