Base of the Grizzly Giant, Giant Sequoia tree, Yosemite Petty France Exterior scene showing a rear

Exterior scene showing a rear view of the 7 foot equatorial sextant with a telescopic sight designed for the old Royal Observatory by John Flamsteed (1646-1719) the first Astronomer Royal

All around are the accoutrements of the playroom

He went on to become one of the foremost British statesman of the Victorian era

Since Prince Albert's death some ten years earlier

pictured with a woman and children at his barrow

Base of the Grizzly Giant, Giant Sequoia tree, Yosemite Petty France Exterior scene showing a rearBase of the Grizzly Giant, Giant Sequoia tree, Yosemite, California, 1868. From The Yosemite Book: A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California, by Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819 1896), published 1868.