Pencil sketches and one watercolor, by Charleston-born architect William Martin Aiken. Includes images of grand houses (exterior and interior) with architectural details, gates and doors, sailing vessels and flora. Charleston, Savannah, Rhode Island, and England.
Pencil sketches by Charleston-born architect William Martin Aiken. Mainly Aiken's copies of fellow student's work, drawn while travelling in Europe (primarily France and Italy). Initials of original artist are often provided.
In this astronomical chart Gibbes provides a diagram and the elements for constructing the diagram. Those elements are hourly motion, declination, hourly motion in declination, horizontal parallax and semidiameter. Gibbes also provides the result times of the eclipse including the beginning, total, opposition, middle, end of total, general and duration of eclipse. The diagram shows the central path for the moon during the eclipse.
In this astronomical chart (front and back) Gibbes provides a diagram and the phases and calculations of a total lunar eclipse including the moon entering the Earth's shadow, total eclipse, middle of eclipse, end of eclipse and the moon leaving the Earth's shadow. On the back of the diagram Gibbes denotes that this chart was made for his classes at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C.
Pencil sketches by Charleston-born architect William Martin Aiken. Primarily architectural elements from churches and museums and generally from Italy, though some are in England and France.
Pencil sketches by Charleston-born architect William Martin Aiken. Primarily interior architectural features from Venice, Italy, with a few outdoor scenes.
In this astronomical chart Gibbes provides a transit of planet Mercury across the sun. Gibbes includes the beginning, middle and end of the transit along with the parallel of declination, limb of the sun and relative path of Mercury.
