One of the constellations representing
technical and artistic apparatus that the Frenchman Nicolas
Louis de Lacaille introduced into the southern sky after his
observing expedition to the Cape of Good Hope in 1751–52.
Lacaille’s original title for the constellation, as given
on his planisphere of 1756, was le Chevalet et la Palette, the
easel and palette. In 1763 he Latinized this to Equuleus
Pictorius (sic), which has since been shortened. Bode in 1801 termed
it Pluteum Pictoris.
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Pictor, shown with the name Pluteum Pictoris in the Uranographia of Johann Bode (1801). Bode closely followed Lacaille’s original depiction of the constellation, unlike many other cases.
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