Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland mb-width 3589 arrives at Solihull Ice Rink

arrives at Solihull Ice Rink

The sitter's right hand rests upon an open book

Evelyn stands side-on

Earl of Lancaster

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland mb-width 3589 arrives at Solihull Ice RinkMonoscopic view from a stereo image used to produce Plate 24 figure 8 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, showing the supporting structures and crane. This view has been pasted onto a supporting