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Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia showing houses and shops

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Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia showing houses and shops
Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia showing houses and shops
Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia showing houses and shops
Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia showing houses and shops
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showing houses and shops

Below is an allegorical scene of a sea god holding a trident and globe and a sailor carrying a Union Jack

armed with his truncheon

Original: ink wash on paper

Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia showing houses and shopsRough 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

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