Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland mb-width 3589 wearing a labelled collar

wearing a labelled collar

View of the fire at Greenwich Hospital

with the dome of St Paul's in the distance

Evelyn stands side-on

The sitter's right hand rests upon an open book

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland mb-width 3589 wearing a labelled collarMonoscopic view from a stereo image used to produce Plate 24 figure 8 from 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. The great telescope seen from the north, showing the supporting structures and crane. This view has been pasted onto a supporting