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Six kinds of electric light produced in tubes containing different gases. Colour aquatint (?) by M. Rapine, 1868.

A man tying a woman's absurdly high wig on to a scaffolding; another woman wearing a tall heart-shaped wig looks on. Coloured etching attributed to M. Rapine.

Optics: a soap bubble exhibiting interference colours. Colour mezzotint (?) by M. Rapine, c. 1883, after B. Desgoffe.

Optics: interference phenomena, exhibited by diffraction gratings. Coloured mezzotint by M. Rapine [1883], after B. Desgoffe.

Astronomy: the Aurora Borealis, over Bossekop, Finnmark, Norway. Coloured wood engraving by M. Rapine, 1868, after Silbermann and Bévalet, 1839.

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Rapine, Maximilien, 1840-1905

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A man tying a woman's absurdly high wig on to a scaffolding; another woman wearing a tall heart-shaped wig looks on. Coloured etching attributed to M. Rapine.

Optics: a soap bubble exhibiting interference colours. Colour mezzotint (?) by M. Rapine, c. 1883, after B. Desgoffe.

Astronomy: the Aurora Borealis, over Bossekop, Finnmark, Norway. Coloured wood engraving by M. Rapine, 1868, after Silbermann and Bévalet, 1839.

Optics: interference phenomena, exhibited by diffraction gratings. Coloured mezzotint by M. Rapine [1883], after B. Desgoffe.

Six kinds of electric light produced in tubes containing different gases. Colour aquatint (?) by M. Rapine, 1868.