Madras Observatory interior Size:L: 100 x 80cm Interior view of Crystal Palace

Interior view of Crystal Palace

on a blotter used at a Transit of Venus Committee meeting at the Royal Society

The tower of the Church of St George Botolph Lane

East India House

Madras Observatory interior Size:L: 100 x 80cm Interior view of Crystal PalacePlate 14 from the paper 'Observations for ascertaining the length of the Pendulum at Madras in the East Indies, latitude 13 4' 9', 1N. with the conclusions drawn from the same', by John Goldingham, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 112 (1822), pp. 127 170. The painting shows three figures, one British and two Indian, taking an observation using a telescope and pendulum of the type used and described by Captain Henry Kater.