View overlooking the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Thomas Chalton

Thomas Chalton

Landscape view showing the naturalist Abraham Trembley with his two pupils

Interior of the Haberdashers' Hall

12th March 1984

View overlooking the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Thomas ChaltonLandscape from behind the old Royal Observatory building (now known as Flamsteed House) at Greenwich, which appears on the right of the print. The observatory's 60 foot refracting telescope is visible, mounted on a flagpole. Downhill from the observatory is Greenwich and the river Thames. Several figures inhabit the scene including (lower right) an artist in the act of drawing. Plate 7 from Ichnographia speculae Regiae Grenovici exquisite facta