Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Size:Standard: 6 x 4in The woman on the right

The woman on the right is wearing a dress with a fur trimmed skirt and a matching fitted coat that has a fur trimmed edge and cuffs

the most celebrated couple within Hindu mythology are a common Madhubai subject

a bricklayer

Plate 3 figures 1-2 from the paper 'On the difference of structure between the human Membrana Tympani and that of the elephant'

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Size:Standard: 6 x 4in The woman on the rightUnused illustration 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 at a slight angle to the view selected for figure 8 of plate 24. The telescope is held low, with foreground detail of the crane winding