World To Come To An End: Stars Falling, 1833-A Canadian Painting of the 1833 Leonid Shower

摘要

There is little doubt that Thomas Conant was well aware that his father was mistaken in his interpretation of the meteor shower. Nonetheless, the artist depicted his painting by the description the witness had provided rather than the way it actually transpired. When compared with most other interpretations of the 1833 Leonids, the Shrapnel painting can be considered even whimsical.