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Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia Boundary stone between the City

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Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia Boundary stone between the City
Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia Boundary stone between the City
Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia Boundary stone between the City
Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia Boundary stone between the City
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Boundary stone between the City of London and the borough of Southwark

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

Princess Anne

'Fatal effects of gluttony

Design sketch for the Great Melbourne Telescope Segovia Boundary stone between the CityRough 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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