Total Lunar Eclipse from Austrian Journal of Popular Astronomy, c.1876 mid-century educational toy to the chickens pecking away

to the chickens pecking away on the green next to the train tracks

or to use daily around the house

when viewed from the underside

possibly an apothecary bottle

where I think it had just been delivered

Total Lunar Eclipse from Austrian Journal of Popular Astronomy, c.1876 mid-century educational toy to the chickens pecking awayThis spectacularly gorgeous image portrays a total lunar eclipse which occurred June, 1863. It is an antique book page from a volume of Zeitschrift fr populre Astronomi (Journal of Popular Astronomy) published by Lith Anst, Graz, c. 1876. The image itself was created by Ernest Matthey Guenet, who I have found some mentions of but not much about. I know very little about astronomy, and lunar phenomenon specifically, but I could stare at this all day