Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Finish:Rolled c1802-c1857

c1802-c1857

'Covent Garden Scene - Women Workers Seated'

Fellow of King's Coll

Original: ink and pencil on paper

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Finish:Rolled c1802-c1857Plate 24 figures 1 11 for the paper 'On the construction of specula of six feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulae made with them', by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 151 (1861) pp. 681 746. Reduced versions of images and cut stereoscopic views of the telescope arranged on a backing board for the engraver. The images are numbered and overwritten with key letters in