Lord Rosse's telescope, Birr, Offaly, Ireland Product:Canvas Raman leaning slightly with his

Raman leaning slightly with his right elbow resting upon a chair back

Also with figures and a coach and horses

'A Study of Sky and Sea from the Deck of a Vessel off Tarifa'

The plate is inscribed: 'The White faced Manakin

Lord Rosse's telescope, Birr, Offaly, Ireland Product:Canvas Raman leaning slightly with hisLord Rosse's telescope, Birr, Offaly, Ireland, 1924 1926. William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800 1867), Irish astronomer and engineer, built what was then the largest telescope in the world on his estate at Birr (then known as Parsonstown), Ireland. The instrument was known as 'the Leviathan of Parsonstown'. With it Lord Rosse discovered 15 spiral nebulae, and named the Crab nebula. A print from Hutchinson's Britain Beautiful, edited by Walter