M.51 the Whirlpool Galaxy Size:XL: 90 x 90cm In 1957 BMC commissioned Alec

In 1957 BMC commissioned Alec Issigonis to design a new small car

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

Cook freom a Miniature by W

The Royal Society's copy was donated by the author on 20 January 1791

M.51 the Whirlpool Galaxy Size:XL: 90 x 90cm In 1957 BMC commissioned AlecPlate 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