Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Product:Framed picture Plan of proposals for King

Plan of proposals for King William Street

Bevis Marks

King of France)

wearing a doublet and ruff collar

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Product:Framed picture Plan of proposals for KingUnused 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