Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia Original: ink wash on paper

Original: ink wash on paper

View of Newcastle House at the junction of Lincoln's Inn Fields

View of Kingsland Chapel

A lesson westward

armed with his truncheon

Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia Original: ink wash on paperRough elevation of an equatorially mounted reflecting telescope supported by a cast iron frame. An observer is shown seated on a platform at the top of the tube. The sketch is part of a letter written from Nasmyth's Bridgewater Foundry at Patricroft, Manchester to the Earl of Rosse, discussing design ideas for the "Great [Melbourne] Telescope". With a pencil inscription upper left "wood cut width to size of paper". Original: ink on paper. 1852