Starry Night, Van Gogh, and Big Dipper

Van Gogh's Starry Night depicts the Big Dipper and his Road with Cypress shows Mercury and Venus.
Roger Sinnott of S&T discusses this in his Astro Computing Oct. 1988 column. I have copies of both
paintings. My issues don't go back that far. Venus and Mercury are easy to pick out, since there are
only two astro images. Not certain which planet is which. Can someone give me an idea how to figure
out the big dipper? I suspect it is in its winter position with the asterism stretching from left to
right across the painting. If so, what's the very large object in the upper right? Part of the
dipper?

--
Wayne T. Watson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N, 2,701 feet, Nevada City, CA)
-- GMT-8 hr std. time, RJ Rcvr

"... the smallest known metal-rich asteroid -- Amun 3554, about one kilometer in
diameter, contains 3.5 trillion dollars' worth of cobalt, nickel, iron and platinum."
-- from Seeing in the Dark by Timothy Ferris

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